The torments of the former DCs in Schlein’s Berlinguer Democratic Party
Because the former Christian Democrat Castagnetti snorts against the Democratic Party's membership campaign with the image of Berlinguer. Damato's Scratches
The timeliness of Pier Luigi Castagnetti's negative reaction to the ongoing PD membership with the image of Enrico Berlinguer is certainly not surprising. Which they wanted to celebrate – it was said from the side of the secretary Elly Schlein – not the 43rd anniversary of the " moral question ", which returned to the front pages of the newspapers on the initiative of Giuseppe Conte and raised against the DC and all the other parties from the leader of the PCI in a famous interview with Eugenio Scalfari, but more simply the 40th anniversary of his death. Which happened a little on the field, due to an illness that struck him during a rally and caused him to lose his life in a few hours.
Castagnetti, after the death of Franco Marini in the Covid years, the departure of Giuseppe Fioroni, and despite the current activism of Dario Franceschini or Lorenzo Guerini, is the most authoritative exponent of what was the Christian Democracy in the Democratic Party. Where he had been the head of Mino Martinazzoli's political secretariat, later becoming the last secretary of the Italian People's Party before its confluence with Margherita, and with it into the Democratic Party. He is a man of only apparent bonhomie, and Emilian. In reality, he is very tough, with deep-rooted convictions. It may therefore have been surprising, if anything, the limit that was imposed in the protest against a Democratic Party which, with the image of Berlinguer printed on the 2024 membership card, has become redder and less white than it already was, or had not become with the unexpected arrival of the young Elly Schlein at the wheel. That. he was only 4 years old when Achille Occhetto, in 1989, distanced himself from the wall demolished in Berlin with the communism it represented and, starting from a section of Bologna, started the "Thing" which led to the PDS and the oak tree that symbolized it instead of the scythe and hammer ended up on the ground.
What kept Castagnetti – 79 years still to go, one more than the former magistrate Nicola Colaianni rejected for his age by Giuseppe Conte as the common candidate of the Democratic Party, 5 Stars and bushes for mayor of Bari – from drawing the consequences from his protest following the Christian Democrat friends who have already left the Nazarene? The real hope is that the secretary will pass the turning point of the European elections in June and have the time and desire to print on the 2025 party card the eyes or face and phrases of Don Luigi Sturzo, or Alcide De Gasperi or of Aldo Moro, as he said while conversing on the telephone with an interviewer from the newspaper ? Or, as the shrewd ones of the Andreotti school suspect, convinced that it is a sin to think badly but one can guess, the fear of involving former party colleague and now President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella in a sensational announcement of termination of employment or membership? With whom he maintained a well-known association and friendship in political buildings, starting with the Quirinale. Where the incumbent president still has almost five years of his second mandate to complete.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/castagnetti-protesta-pd-tesseramento-berlinguer/ on Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:30:30 +0000.