Who plows little in the large field on the left
The Campo Largo on the left is really not bucolic. Damato's Scratches
Only the adjectives of the field in which the alternative parties to the centre-right, or right-centre of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni move are destined to increase with the regional elections already held and with those of various kinds which will also follow the European elections on 9 June. It is a decidedly expanding literature.
The secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein and the man who activated her political vocation – Romano Prodi, with his failure to be elected President of the Republic in 2013, betrayed by the snipers of a party of whose sections the young activist demanded a retaliatory occupation – speak notoriously whenever they can they "wide field". Indeed, very wide, extending from the left of Bonelli and Fratoianni to the center where Calenda and Renzi are being talked about with all sorts of things and giving each other a good fight. A camp naturally including the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement. Whose president Giuseppe Conte equally notoriously wants it neither wide nor long enough to make him a missing person, and let him count for practically nothing, or much less than his aspirations. Among which there is no shortage, indeed it prevails over all, according to experts in the sector, that of returning to Palazzo Chigi. From where the professor, lawyer etc. felt unjustly evicted to be replaced by Draghi in what Travaglio still defines as "Conticide".
To the adjective "right", repeatedly, indeed obstinately, preferred to "large", the former prime minister has just involuntarily added another: "modest". Involuntarily, because he only wanted to define his party's result in Abruzzo in this way, where it received a third of the Democratic Party's votes, reaching around 7 percent. Not even in Sardinia, last month, things went well for the Grillini votes, few but compensated by the candidacy for the presidency of the region snatched, it seems, with no effort from the secretary of the Democratic Party, without even spending a phone call, Conte himself boasted in an interview that must not have been convenient for Schlein. Whose generosity, let's call it that, towards the former Grillino prime minister is indigestible to many.
Not everyone at the Nazarene thinks like Senate group leader Boccia. Who, interviewed by Corriere della Sera , responded thus to those who reminded him of the defeat in Abruzzo followed by those in Molise, Calabria, Liguria: "But we won in Naples, in Foggia, in Catanzaro and in other cities and we are together arriving in Puglia and Sardinia. The political process we are building – continued Boccia – is moving forward. It's tiring, but this is normal."
Conte's "modest" reference to the Abruzzo election result was mischievously extended in some sectors of the Democratic Party to the field of the alliance cultivated with so much effort, rightly evoked by Boccia. An area where even Prodi put in a bit of his sarcasm by observing, right after the Abruzzo elections re-won by the centre-right, that there is a lack of "peasants". Or there are not enough of them to cultivate the land.
Prodi was joined by his former Minister of Justice Mastella, mayor of Benevento for some time with his ears and eyes always turned elsewhere, alone or with his wife Sandra. He spoke in an interview about "Pinocchio's camp": the one "of miracles" in which Collodi's puppet is fooled by the cat and the fox. Who make him sow the gold coins he recklessly possesses, telling him that a tree producing those coins will grow. Naturally, the cat and the fox steal the coins sown by the puppet as soon as he moves away to let the plant and fruit ripen. Who is the cat and who is the fox in our case, between Conte and Schlein, in keeping with their gender division, everyone is free to imagine
Who knows what else this "countryside" literature is destined to reserve for us, to repeat the adjective ironically used by Bersani when speaking on television about the possible alliance with the Grillini to propose to now focus only on the "alternative", thinking later about what to call it differently, and better. Or don't call her at all if she gets lost along the way.
Since Conte's human, very human vanity is known, in addition to his ambition, with that ever so elegant way of dressing, even in a casual version, and of moving around squares, alleys and living rooms, the annoyance that Prodi may have caused him is imaginable imagining him in the clothes and tools of the farmers necessary for the field so rich for now only in literature. It's okay that Conte's homeland, the Volturara Appula where he occasionally returns with his mind and also with his feet, is rural. But we must also remember and respect the evolution of the man who also had the opportunity to whisper in Merkel's and above all Trump's ears. Who could even return to the White House in a few months.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/chi-ara-poco-nel-campo-largo-della-sinistra/ on Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:47:39 +0000.