Will there be a Schlein-Bonaccini diarchy in the Democratic Party?
What really happens in the Democratic Party led by the new secretary Elly Schlein. Damato's Scratches
Having had to give up on the project of subduing the antagonist defeated in the primaries to the point of making him his deputy secretary, and resigning instead to the "diarchy" indicated by Maria Teresa Meli in the Corriere della Sera in the presidency of the party entrusted to Stefano Bonaccini , has made the figure of the new leader of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein even more multifaceted than it already was before taking office. Whose relations with Giuseppe Conte perhaps also for this reason have already changed with respect to the cordiality shown in the recent meeting in Florence, during the anti-fascist demonstration organized by the trade unions, with that embrace, even if not immortalized by a photograph, or by a TV freeze frame .
COUNT'S WORDS ABOUT SCHLEIN'S PD
Interviewed by Fatto Quotidiano , in view of the formalization of the "diarchy" in the Democratic Party, on Schlein's repeatedly confirmed belief that it was necessary to continue military aid to Ukraine attacked by the Russians, the former Prime Minister and by now consolidated head of the Movement 5 Star laconically noted that "there is no turning point with respect to Letta's belligerent line", the predecessor of the Nazarene.
"With all due respect for personal sensitivities, the official positions and votes are valid", added Conte, alluding to the parliamentary adhesions in which Schlein has already participated in the matter of weapons in Kiev after having missed a few. Rightly so, Angelo Panebianco observed in Corriere della Sera on Sunday, "it is above all the international challenges that change perspectives, that affect the life of democracies, the behavior of governments as well as oppositions".
THE THOUGHT OF LABOR
The director of Fatto Quotidiano , Marco Travaglio, not commenting but somehow completing the moods and thoughts of the interviewee, expressed his fear – after all the attention given to Schlein under the five stars, up to the participation of some even prominent names in the "open" primaries of the Democratic Party that she won – that we can register the explosion of a too imprudently inflated frog. And he concluded his editorial by promising to verify, this time much more cautiously than others, if in the end "Schlein will have changed the Democratic Party or the Democratic Party will have changed Schlein".
The latter would evidently be the Democratic Party of the "caciques and club bosses" that the new secretary instead evicted in her settlement speech on Fuksas's cloud, in Eur, practically saying that it's over for them. And instead the moment also desired by Bonaccini has arrived to wear all the same shirt, discontinuing those of the currents and the like.
THE VOICES FROM WITHIN THE PD
In and around the Nazareno, outside the narrow circle of admirers of the first hour and the ex who have just returned or are returning to the Democratic Party, there were loud and numerous voices that advised the new secretary to be cautious in approaching the grillini.
The most authoritative was that of Romano Prodi, to whom Schlein owes the notoriety she gained in politics ten years ago by leading the incitement to occupy its offices ten years ago in the Democratic Party in protest against the failure to elect the former premier at the Quirinale, at the expiry of the first term of Giorgio Napolitano. An occupation – let me remind you – which Schlein had not thought about in the previous days, when even the president of the Democratic Party, Franco Marines. The centre-right was also in favor of his candidacy, mindful of the origin of the interested party from the Christian Democrat social left of Carlo Donat-Cattin. Before and even immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, for its declared anti-communism it stood out from the other left, called "Base" and led by Ciriaco De Mita, secretary of the party from 1982 to 1989: a left, the latter, so wary of the PSI also, or above all, of Bettino Craxi to prefer "the bet" – as Arnaldo Forlani called it with a little Vaseline – "on the evolution of the PCI" of Enrico Berlinguer and his successors.
PRODI'S ADVICE TO SCHLEIN
Prodi, to return to him, publicly advised Schlein not to consider the important problem of alliances as a priority, today in the opposition and in the future in the government, because it is first necessary to define well and finally the evidently somewhat lost identity of the Democratic Party . Lost, I would say, at least since the unsuccessful amalgam complained about by Massimo D'Alema already the following year, a little more or less, of the confluence between the heirs of the PCI, the Christian Democratic left and green bushes and liberals.
Even then, I repeat, like Prodi and many others today, one could only say with Eugenio Montale "what we are not, what we don't want", rather than what we are and want: either to stay in opposition in this legislature or to return to the government in the next, if and when the experience is consummated, the adventure – call it what you will – of the center-right of a Meloni who has just been proclaimed "invincible" even by Berlusconi at the celebration dinner for Matteo Salvini's first 50 years, only four in more than the premier. Unfortunately, a dinner landed on the front pages of the newspapers especially for the not exactly happy karaoke , also given the external circumstances, about the unhappy Calabrian emigrant Marinella made famous by Fabrizio De André for her tragic end as a prostitute in a river in the rich North.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/pd-diarchia-schlein-bonaccini/ on Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:39:50 +0000.