Will Conte still mess with Schlein after Sardinia?
The 5 Star Movement retreats in Sardinia as a list but manages to get its candidate elected to the presidency of the region thanks to the generosity of Schlein's Democratic Party… Damato's Graffi
Among the various photos celebrating the elections that led to the presidency of the Sardinian region Alessandra Todde, the first as a woman on the island and as a grillina in all of Italy, a naive or naive person, but not so much as not to recognize the people filmed looking smug and festive season, she will have focused on the one that portrays together, from left to right, only the five stars Ettore Licheri, Giuseppe Conte and Todde. And he may have wondered how many votes their movement managed to gather in the polls to have risen so high, to the top of the region. But he discovers, by consulting the maps of the parties, with their symbols, that the five stars one is the only which shares with Matteo Salvini's League, in the opposite centre-right or right-centre camp, the misadventure of a general retreat, compared to both the previous regional elections, in 2019, and the latest political elections, in 2022.
In particular, Conte's movement fell to 7.8 percent from 9.7 percent in the previous regional elections, which also took place when he was not the head of the party but rather of the national government, and from 21.8 percent in the general elections. of 2022, which took place when Conte was no longer prime minister but only president of the 5 stars. Going down 14 points out of 21 in less than two years should not be considered a feat, a fortune, but an accident at least, if not a misfortune. Superior, in size, to that – I repeat – which also afflicts Matteo Salvini by comparing his 3.8 percent last Sunday to the 6.3 of the 2022 political elections and the 11.4 of the 2019 regional ones.
It is curious, to say the least, that the secretary of the Democratic Party, in order to reach an agreement with a movement as shabby as Conte's, granted him the candidacy for the presidency of the region so willingly that Conte himself said that he had not even asked her, that he would not having spent not even a phone call on his Todde.
Schlein paid for such generosity, with the rupture caused by the reaction of the former Sardinian governor Renato Soru, the considerable price of 5 points out of 18 between the 2022 policies and last Sunday's regional elections. A sacrifice – the generous Romano Prodi somehow explained in place of Schelin in an interview with La Stampa – to build the famous "wide field" needed on the left to defeat the center-right at a national level next time,
But how wide and wide, says Conte instead. Who prefers a "right" field for his ambitions, that is, the least broad possible, which allows him the adventure already imagined by Beppe Grillo in 2009 of conquering the Democratic Party, this one flies without even trying to register, as the comedian after Walter Veltroni's resignation as secretary, but eating it like salami. “It's not a competition with the Democratic Party,” Conte just told Corriere della Sera . It's a walk of snack companions.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/conte-intortera-ancora-schlein-dopo-la-sardegna/ on Wed, 28 Feb 2024 07:31:11 +0000.