The (new) split between Pd and M5S, made official live on TV by Giuseppe Conte from the headquarters in Campo Marzio, materializes plastically less than 24 hours later in Tempo di Adriano. Nicola Zingaretti is there to present the end-of-term report and his board is there in full force (front row Alessio D’Amato, councilor for health and candidate for his succession), except for the pentastellated components, Roberta Lombardi and Valentina Corrado. The latter will arrive when the presentation is complete, and even if the former secretary of the Pd tries to minimize (“We don’t create cases that don’t exist, until 4 am we work together”), the political figure remains. Zingaretti, by the way, cannot fail to formalize the rupture: “I heard the press conference, Conte breaks the alliance that governs Lazio without reason because the Region has never authorized and will not authorize the incinerator”.
The governor of Lazio speaks clearly to the ‘former’ allies but tries to remain optimistic: “I do not have the task of building the future alliance but I am a builder of unity and I appeal to the other forces because I believe we can win the regional elections”. Even without Cinquestelle? “Of course”, the reply. Rebuilding the field now seems difficult even for Lombardi, who in recent years has built it himself, going against even the most ‘purist’ pentastellated soul. “The same thing that happened in Rome, and that caused us to be divided, will also happen in Lazio, if there is no step to the side, not back” about the incinerator, he admits. Instead, Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli try to recompose: “It would be unforgivable to replicate the political scheme, it would mean handing over Lazio to the right.”
In reality, the leaders of the green-left alliance share the programmatic conditions advanced by Giuseppe Conte. “We are against the incinerator, it is absolutely outdated technology”, says Bonelli clearly, but he invites everyone to “responsibility” and invites those who already see the red-green allies to the M5S not to draw conclusions: “Nothing is taken for granted”, cut short.
However, there is still no way out. “The broadest alliance at the moment can unite around the name of D’Amato”, justify the demos and it is not by chance that Lazio’s health-machine man comes harsh words against the M5S and the absence of Lombardi and Corrado . “It is an institutional rudeness that marks a definitive rupture”, he abbreviates.
Tomorrow D’Amato will be at 17:30 at the Brancaccio theater shouting ‘It can be done 2023’ and many are watching carefully how many dem ‘souls’ will be present in the audience. His candidacy could be achieved through the primaries, an option that Daniele Leodori and Marta Bonafoni, the other dem exponents in the field so far, evaluate as positive.
Even in Lombardy we could reach the viewpoints (already on the field in the case of Vittorio Agnoletto and Piefrancesco Majorino) although, admits those working on the dossier, “the pressure on Giuliano Pisapia is still strong”, which could bring together many souls in the center-left. Among the strong names still on the field is also that of the mayor of Brescia Emilio Del Bono, while the dem no one believes in the possibility that in the end Letizia Moratti will give it a chance. “Has Luigi Zanda approved? The beauty of being a plural party, nothing more”.
The confirmation of Attilio Fontana’s candidacy by the centre-right leaders, then, for the dem, constitutes an additional opportunity in the possibility of dialogue with the third pole: “We have opposed together for five years in Lombardy, we have obstructed the health reform Moratti and anyway, looking at the latest polls, even the centrists no longer seem so sure of winning, nor of finishing second.
Next week, however, the regional assembly is expected to approve the amendment to the electoral law that gives the governor and not the mayor the possibility of establishing when the regional elections will take place, which may take place or jointly with Lazio in the range 5-12 February, or on the natural expiration of Attilio Fontana’s term or in May on an eventual election day with the Administrative.
The debate on alliances for the Regionals, in any case, anticipates that of the congress and there are those who do not exclude scenarios from which there is no going back: “I believe that if we do not find a common basis of values between different positions that in recent years have expressed in our party, we can also risk a division,” admits Dario Nardella, and no one, neither among the reformists who appreciate Calenda and Renzi, nor among the left that still hopes for a dialogue with Conte, has the will to deny that.
Source: IL Tempo
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