Why Franceschini yanks Schlein in the Democratic Party
What's happening in the Democratic Party. Damato's Scratches
Without wanting to take anything away from the ongoing liberation of the Hamas hostages in the shadow of the truce in Gaza snatched from the Israeli government in the war provoked by the Palestinian terrorism podrom of 7 October, I think it is worth mentioning Dario Franceschini's attempt – anticipated today by Corriere della Sera , albeit with different language – to free the Democratic Party. Who ended up practically a hostage of Elly Schlein , who was also helped by him in recent months to climb and conquer the secretariat.
Even though he is now aged, even beyond his 65 years of age, seeing attempts at incisive constitutional reforms between the first and second Republic fail, former minister Franceschini has developed the opinion that the one just started by the government of Giorgia Meloni for the direct election of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has the numbers in Parliament to approve her project on her own and also the possibility of then obtaining ratification in the referendum with the simple formula she has already chosen to ask voters whether they want to take the right to choose the head of government or leave it to the parties.
Even if he likes it little or not at all, Franceschini believes that the reform of the premiership can be improved in the not short, indeed double parliamentary path, knowing that it is also in Meloni's interest to take it under its name in any case in a scenario in which it does not have much room for maneuver on the ground economic and financial. Schlein was therefore wrong to entrench herself in a position of absolute contrast, tying the Democratic Party hand and foot as if to a hostage. And this in the sharing or indifference of other big names – I would add – such as the returned former secretary Pier Luigi Bersani. Who began to distract himself by being an actor, facilitated by his Emilian good nature and the wit that he never lacked even in politics. Like when, sensing the growth of the right according to him supported by the then secretary of the Democratic Party Matteo Renzi, he spoke on television and in the squares about the "cow" that wandered between the rooms of the Nazarene, presumably leaving its voluminous excrements, without anyone noticing would notice and at least take care of the cleaning. It was also for this reason that he left the Democratic Party with others to return during the Schlein era.
We will see if, how and when Franceschini's temptation will develop, at least, to break the new spell he himself created and to free the party from what are proving to be the chains of the new secretariat, also at the risk of leaving the prospect of Landini-Conte couple leading a long opposition to the Meloni government that would be difficult to transform into a real alternative. What is certain is that the former Minister of Culture has behind him consolidated experience of assembling, dismantling and reassembling balances in the party of the day, perhaps thinking of imitating Aldo Moro who in the DC knew how to "decompose to recompose", as he liked to say and recommend.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-franceschini-strattona-schlein-nel-pd/ on Sat, 25 Nov 2023 08:54:26 +0000.