This is how the war machine built by Letta shatters
How the anti-center-right alliance changes after the decision of Carlo Calenda. Paola Sacchi's note
The Letta-Calenda agreement ends in an exchange of mutual accusations, with a somewhat surreal flavor. With Calenda that passes after the agreement, separate, "electoral only" of the leader of the Democratic Party also with the radical left of Fratoianni and the Verdi of Bonelli.
The too colorful war machine that Letta had tried to put together is inevitably shattered, with the cry of "alarm" against "the right", which "if they win, they upset the Constitution". Hard blow for a strategic scheme now almost thirty years on the left built on the demonization of the opponent, a scheme that this time seems to explode in the hands of the constructor on duty.
Everything happens on Sunday afternoon on TV at half an hour more , on Rai3. Calenda freezes Letta: “I do not intend to go ahead with the alliance with the Democratic Party. There are pieces out of tune, I wanted to make an agreement for a social democratic party… ”.
But it is also an image shot for Calenda himself and the Forza Italia exits, who in Letta's intentions should have acted as a "magnet" for the center-right voters.
Therefore, the colorful war machine that was conceived by the Democratic Party is losing pieces: from the former yellow by Luigi Di Maio, combined with the splash of centrist white by Bruno Tabacci, to the deep red by Nicola Fratoianni, with the radical environmentalism of Angelo Bonelli, up to the former pale blue of the former FI in Calenda's Action.
Now, Action is no more, the separate agreements of the Democratic Party remain with Bonelli and Fratoianni on the one hand and Di Maio and Tabacci on the other. With Fratoianni who voted 54 times no to trust Draghi and Di Maio and Tabacci instead for the Draghi agenda.
It is the defeat of an a priori approach, declared delegitimization of the political opponent, treated each time as the enemy and against which the left has launched what Letta himself calls "alarm". With Fratoianni and Bonelli it will also be just an electoral agreement, but it is clear that the contradictions are destined to explode sooner or later with them too.
How to reconcile the Western positioning, the attacks on the "right" defined as "Orbanian and pro-Persian" with Fratoianni who has always spoken out against sending weapons to Ukraine and against the entry into NATO of Sweden and Finland?
Matteo Renzi immediately puts his finger in the sore and attacks the Democratic Party: "How can you promise a reduction in taxes if Letta then first proposes the assets?". So confirmed: Renzi will race alone with his Italia Viva for that third pole to which he had called Calenda. Who will now go with Renzi?
“Left in chaos, everyone against everyone. The popular will is respected ”, comments Matteo Salvini, leader of the League. And Antonio Tajani, vice president of FI: “United only in favor of taxes”.
Hard thrust of the president of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni: “A bandwagon to divide up the armchairs. End of the soap opera. Letta now dropped on the altar thinks of his old love Conte ”. The center-right prefers to talk about the program he is perfecting in 15 points, entitled "Italy tomorrow".
Berlusconi proposes a flat tax for everyone at 23 per cent, Salvini observes that in the meantime, "workers' bonuses, overtime, salary increases could immediately be de-taxed".
Visions opposite to those of a center-left plunged into chaos.
Berlusconi in an interview with “Il Messaggero”: “They only know how to denigrate their opponents”. But, in the meantime, yesterday in the center left it was all a denigration between them. Read against Calenda accused of wanting to ally himself only with himself, Bettini, Orlando who accuse the leader of Action of unreliability. Old stories on the left that seem to never end.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/primo-piano/ecco-come-si-frantuma-la-macchina-da-guerra-costruita-da-letta/ on Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:54:31 +0000.