Will Schlein’s shadow government really overshadow Meloni?
Announcements and unknowns on the shadow government outlined by Elly Schlein, secretary of the Democratic Party. Damato's Scratches
WHAT WILL SCHLEIN DO WITH HIS SHADOW GOVERNMENT?
The legendary mister Wolf, who in 1994 presented himself to the world in a film as the man who solves problems, a bit like Silvio Berlusconi did in Italy in the same year by entering the political arena, has now run out of time. He did it before and even more than the Cavaliere who, indomitable, has also managed to transform the intensive care unit of a hospital into a living room that no other patient in his condition would perhaps be allowed to do.
SCHLEIN'S ANNOUNCEMENT
From the man who solves problems we have passed to the woman – another fallen glass ceiling – who offers herself, proposes and whatever else to create. She is the new secretary of the Pd Elly Schlein, now also the head of a shadow government of 21 people opposing Giorgia Meloni's ministers. It was "long", as the person concerned prefers to say as a polyglot or multinational rather than slow, but in the end she made it, getting tired all the same to the point of having to take a rest period in which they dipped the biscuits of 'irony, or sarcasm, some newspapers. A rest that Meloni will not be able to take due to the problems she was grappling with even before those threatened by her main opponent loomed.
THE DIFFERENCES
Unlike those of the English tradition, the shadow governments attempted in Italy by some of Schlein's predecessors on the left have always dissolved into thin air. They have been more shadows than governments. We'll see if with the "hard" opposition announced, albeit without much evidence, by the manifesto , the secretary of the Democratic Party at the end of her rest will succeed in her warlike intentions. There are many waiting for her to be tested, in truth also or above all in her party. Where the currents frankly don't seem so disarmed to me, or even reduced. Time will tell, as they say in dubious circumstances.
THE MIRES
However legitimate, however, and even of British lineage, I repeat, in a country like Italy and at a time like this, with a war going on in Europe, to which Putin would like us to get used to like the Russians, or the Ukrainians themselves attacked and invaded, the intention of "making trouble," as Schlein put it, could prove to be an even bigger problem. The opposition is notoriously not at all exempt from the sense or duty of responsibility, even if populism has spread so much in Italy in recent times that it has become a chronic disease, like the ones Berlusconi is defending himself from in hospital these days. Let's hope we all make it out alive, us and him.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/fara-davvero-ombra-a-meloni-il-governo-ombra-di-schlein/ on Sat, 08 Apr 2023 06:58:11 +0000.