Who bluffs on Antonio Panzeri (ex Pd and Article 1)
What people say and what they don't say about former MEP Antonio Panzeri
A news program defines Antonio Panzeri as a "socialist" and Riccardo Nencini is indignant: "Enough with the c…. you! Defined as a democratic socialist, a shame, especially if the public service does it. But it is true: woe to the vanquished”. It seems like a detail in the bad Qatar-European Parliament case. Scandal which involves, as the president of the small PSI points out, which brings together a part of the former socialists, allied with the dem, Panzeri, "ex DS". And first ex Pci-Pds, then elected in Strasbourg with the Pd , finally "Article 1" by Roberto Speranza, who suspends him. In short, all formations that have absolutely nothing to do with the Psi, the original one of Bettino Craxi, in their DNA. Paradoxically everything was and is, if not for some grafts from independents, except socialist, the Democratic Party, born from the merger between the former PCI-PDS-DS and Sinistra DC. And this is precisely the crux of a party that has never really reflected on the judicial liquidation of Bettino Craxi's PSI.
And for yet another mockery of history, it is understandable that Nencini jumps on his seat when he hears the former MEP, at the center of the Qatar case, called a "socialist and democrat". But this is how the president of the small Psi, allied with the Pd, you know, is called the group of European socialist parties in which the Pd also belongs, largely originating from the former Pci and the former communist Panzeri was. A distinction that seems like a detail but which refers to unresolved and perhaps even incomprehensible historical issues now outside our country which refer to the all-Italian anomaly of the judicial liquidation of the only true Socialist Party that existed, unlike all the other European countries. The Qatar case, which involves a Greek socialist vice-president of the then suspended Strasbourg assembly, a trade unionist, head of the largest confederation in the world, and others, including the representative of an NGO – head of an NGO is the same Panzeri – hits the Euro-Left. Guarantees must always be the polar star. The serious events of the past can never be a justification for a tribal climate of pillory or worse of an "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" or a reason for venting a certain justicialism even in right-wing sectors, with the word "jail" always ready in the phrasebook.
But it would certainly be hypocritical to omit the ongoing mega-investigation into alleged corruption by Qatar where the object in question would have been precisely those rights, which have always been the banner of the left which has waved them as a weapon against their opponents politicians, immediately makes a victim: the alleged, so-called "moral superiority". In the name of which the post-communist left, which later joined that of the DC left, has always put itself in the chair against the political opponents of the centre-right. From the accusations of "inhumanity" to the last electoral campaign all played on the alarm against the victory of the "right" and the infamous "sovereignists", through whom, according to this campaign, even "Putin won". This time, however, they are not in the viewfinder.
Matteo Salvini's League, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Deputy Prime Minister immediately calls for "A commission of inquiry in Brussels and the convening of Copasir", to clarify "on foreign interference after the investigations, searches and arrests which involved a elected by the Democratic Party and other leading exponents of the left in Brussels”, says a note from Via Bellerio. Who asks: “In exchange for money, in the Democratic Party and among its allies are there those who have closed their eyes to the violation of human rights? “. The Northern League note concludes: "Unlike those who for years have ridden insinuations and fake news against political rivals, as guarantors we sincerely hope that the accusations are unfounded and for this very reason we hope that light is shed quickly and unequivocally". Forza Italia exponents such as the deputy minister Valentino Valentini and the vice president of the Senate Maurizio Gasparri are also asking that the commission should proceed immediately. Very hard in Pd Andrea Orlando. “Exchanging rights for money is treason”, the former dem minister of Labor goes down hard against his former party colleague. While on TV Panzeri is spoken of as a former MEP of the group of "socialists and democrats". But, it was precisely the former Pd, then Article 1, which was never a socialist. Details of the Italian anomaly on the left. Details, so to speak.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/antonio-panzeri-ex-pd-articolo-1/ on Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:12:09 +0000.