What will the Democratic Party say about the referendum
Because there is expectation for a clear position of the Democratic Party on the referendum
The "Yes with freedom" of the No that the secretary Nicola Zingaretti – according to a front page title of the manifesto – is about to announce to the leadership of the Democratic Party in view of the confirmatory referendum of 20 September on the 345 parliamentary seats cut by the reform imposed by the grillini in government agreements is practically a Nì. That is, it is something that does not exist in nature, and not even in the dictionaries of the Italian language, but it expresses well all the ambiguity of the situation and of the very test to which the voters are called. Which will be predictably more numerous in the six regions in which there will be voting in less than a month also for the renewal of the regional councils, not to mention the renewal of about a thousand municipal councils. Elsewhere the turnout will be much lower, however, it will not prevent the validity of the overall result because in confirmatory referendums the preliminary condition of abrogative referendums does not exist, which is the participation of half plus one of those entitled to vote.
The Nì as a virtual compromise solution between the Yes claimed by the grillini, in compliance with the government agreements of a year ago, and the No claimed or already announced by several exponents and also leaders of the Democratic Party as a reaction to the non-compliance of other parts of those agreements, relating to the compensatory modification of parliamentary regulations, a new electoral law and amendments to the Constitution for a reduced participation of regional delegates in the parliamentary election of the President of the Republic; the Nì, I said, will allow an authoritative Piddino senator like Luigi Zanda, former group leader at Palazzo Madama and party treasurer, to vote for No, as he has already announced that he is "oriented" to do, without violating an indication or party directive. “I never did it”, explained Zanda, immediately obtaining from Zingaretti the practical authorization to do so due to the ambiguous framework – I repeat – of the position to be indicated to the management, given the fulfillment of the government agreements so far failed. On one of which the secretary of the Democratic Party, speaking of a new proportional electoral law in an interview with Corriere della Sera, confidently declared the vote of at least one of the chambers still possible. Yet we are now less than a month from the referendum.
The discontent that also crosses the Democratic Party – like other parties of both the majority and the center-right opposition – in the face of the reduction in parliamentary seats claimed by the grillini with anti-caste motivations, to cut "armchairs" and expenses intended as waste, even if the savings would consist of one coffee a day for each Italian, are well expressed in a cartoon donated to the committee of promoters of the referendum by the famous cartoonist Sergio Staino, former director of the late Unit , the historic PCI newspaper founded by Antonio Gramsci. The alleged "80 percent of the comrades of the Democratic Party" tempted by the Yes to a greatly reduced Parliament are "infected by populism", grillino or other brand, according to the militant Bobo, with whom Staino usually identifies.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/che-cosa-dira-il-pd-sul-referendum/ on Wed, 26 Aug 2020 05:00:56 +0000.