Will there be a transhumance of grillini from Conte’s M5s to Schlein’s Pd?
What is happening in the 5 Star Movement chaired by Conte after Elly Schlein's victory in the Pd primaries. Damato's Scratches
Giuseppe Conte is evidently convinced that the changing of the guard at the top of the Democratic Party, which he himself placed as a condition for resuming the collaboration, alliance or whatever that was interrupted with the end of the government of Mario Draghi and the consequent early elections in September , is also destined to leave its mark in the field of action of the 5 Star Movement, which he conquered after alternating relationships with a Beppe Grillo who has almost entirely returned to the theater. Where every now and then, for heaven's sake, the comedian and "guarantor" returns to make political news, for example by recently rewriting the history of relations with Draghi and winning the merit of having effectively denied him the Quirinale at the end of Sergio Mattarella's first term, obtaining in retaliation – he said – a worsening of relations already difficult from the first moment with his predecessor at Palazzo Chigi.
SCHLEIN RAISES THE PD IN THE POLLS
At this point, with the Democratic Party for which the election of the new secretary was enough to rise between 21 and 28 February by more than two points in Alessandra Ghisleri's poll, reaching 19.6 percent of voting intentions, and with Momento 5 Stars dropped by almost a point and a half and stopped at 15.6, Conte acknowledged that his problem "is not" – or is no longer, it could be specified – "the primacy or leadership of the left". He said this after a ten-minute meeting with Elly Schlein at the anti-fascist demonstration in Florence organized by the trade unions.
The problem now is that – explained the former prime minister – of "working to strengthen the political action of progressive forces". Of which he had managed to become towards the end of his second term in Palazzo Chigi "the highest point of reference" for the admission of the same secretary of the Democratic Party at the time, Nicola Zingaretti, and of the animator, let's call him that, Goffredo Bettini. If "with the new leadership of the Democratic Party this horizon will be strengthened, so be it", concluded Conte, proposing to meet Schlein for longer and to also talk to her about the topics that by force of time remained unrelated to their direct and physical conversation in Florence.
WHAT SCHLEIN THINKS OF THE M5S LINE ON THE WAR
Among the topics to be discussed or further explored later are those of work, treated instead by Schlein speaking with the general secretary of the CGIL Massimo Landini, almost a landlord in the anti-fascist demonstration after the Piddino mayor of the city Dario Nardella, and those of foreign policy. Which are then, more concrete and dramatic, the problems of Russia's war against the Ukraine . Regarding which, however, Schlein broke all delays, even those complained within the Democratic Party by the outgoing deputy responsible for the sector Lia Quartapelle, wife of Claudio Martelli, declaring not to the elusive Giornale di Peretola but to the New York Times , that the 'he warned as a "shock" in Italy, of "disagreeing" with the pentastellati. And to consider "correct" – or necessary, as others have translated – the continuing military and other types of aid to Ukraine attacked by Putin.
SCHLEIN, COUNT AND THE GRILLINIS AT THE PRIMARY PD
It doesn't seem to me, frankly, a recent novelty for the analysis of the perspectives of the unitary action of the progressive area, as Conte would call it, or – more generally – of the "game" which now "goes back to the left", as written in Repubblica Concita De Gregorio finally being able to free himself from the polemical siege brought about by too much, pleased interest in Giorgia Meloni reproached in those parts. A Meloni, for her part, not even so worried about the "green mice" advocated by Schlein's supporters because she is convinced, or hopeful, that a stronger bipolarity in the female version than that consumed by male leadership in recent years leaves less room for stomach aches in the centre-right, or right-centre majority. And also to the so-called middle ground cultivated by the third pole of Carlo Calenda, Letizia Moratti and Matteo Renzi, in strictly alphabetical order.
Concita De Gregorio, boasting perhaps greater knowledge of the Democratic Party than Conte for having directed the official newspaper, l'Unità , for some time, somehow urged the former prime minister not to be too surprised by the participation of many voters grillini – 22 percent, it was calculated by Antonio Noto – in the "open" primaries of February 26 which allowed Schlein to overtake the Bonaccini largely preferred by members in voting in clubs.
“Where did you think – asked Concita – that the Grillini votes came from when they touched a third of the electorate? All from right? All from the neo indifference, all originated on the night of vaffaday? It was then that a large part of the left-wing voters orphaned of representation found a new home there. Many came from the movements, some from Italia dei Valori (Di Pietro's, I allow myself to recall), many from the Democratic Party. Now that Schlein is there, they don't arrive but, prudently, they return”. And they return so much that Conte, according to Concita, “evaluates yet another positioning. at the Centre, he too”. We will see.
What is certain is that the sociologist Domenico De Masi also wanted to be among those who returned at least to the gazebos of the Democratic Party. to which Beppe Grillo confided last year the anti-Conte pressure exerted on him by Draghi still at Palazzo Chigi. Other times, but basically not so far away.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/conte-schlein/ on Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:35:12 +0000.