Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum. So much wisdom in this ancient Latin saying. A phrase that, evidently, is not among the favorites of the prefect of Rome. “We lost the elections because we failed to make broad alliances”. Words that make you think, those expressed by Roberto Gualtieri, speaking this morning on the television program “Omnibus”.
If, on the one hand, the mayor focuses on the numerical analysis of the issue, he turns out to be light years away from the political reality. Translated: it is evident even to those who have half a diopter that Pd alone is destined to lose for many years. Nationally, sure, but also in most Italian regions and municipalities. However, it is equally indisputable that thinking today of a broad field capable of bringing together Matteo Renzi and Elly Schlein, Nicola Fratoianni and Stefano Bonaccini, Carlo Calenda and Giuseppe Conte is simply utopian. Democrats will, for the first time in their history, have to choose which side to take. Or with the Third Pole, to conquer a center that has never been so little represented as it is at the moment. Or with Grillini and the radical left, peremptorily shifting the political axis.
“There have been many splits that haven’t brought luck to those who made them: who thinks this is wrong and isn’t going anywhere. Let the leaders pass, the Pd is and will be the main party of the Italian democratic left. The congress – repeated Gualtieri – must be about the identity and program of the Democratic Party”.
The Capitoline mayor then concentrated on the profile of the two candidates for the secretariat of the Democratic Party. “I will analyze the candidates well, both have strong elements. Schlein is rightly saying that a critique of our development model is needed, more determination in profound, redistributive and energy transition changes. Change, even profound and radical, must be transformed into the ability to mobilize society from below. The Democratic Party is a government party and must have a strong responsibility and, from that point of view, Bonaccini has a certain solidity. They are two candidates who express the right things, the congress will have to translate into the party’s ability to look and know how to plan a change but in a credible way”.
Source: IL Tempo
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