“Let’s preempt them or we’ll die.” In the Democratic Party there is a fight over the date of the primaries

The collapse at the polls raises the alarm: “Congress takes too long, we extinguish”

In the Democratic Party, the case of the date of the primaries explodes, judged by some to be very distant given the polls that show the party increasingly in difficulties. The situation is such that at the end of the morning Giorgio Gori vented on Twitter: «Let me understand: Soumahoro is from the company Bonelli & Fratoianni; Panzeri is from Art.1. How does it all end up on the Democratic Party account? Now please everyone take the blows that touch you. And the Democratic Party brings a little pride and self-respect, what the hell », writes the mayor of Bergamo.

The latest Swg polls for La7 show the dem in freefall at 14.7% (“It goes down really fast, faster than the Goggia” to quote Fiorello) and tempers are once again heating up. Matteo Ricci, Mayor of Pesaro, teamed up with Stefano Bonaccini plays the role: «The Democratic Party needs to restart immediately, a shock is needed to reverse the trend. We convened the management urgently and brought forward the primaries to January 22nd. Immediately a new secretary, so mind and heart in the Regional and Constituent Assembly. Let’s stop hurting each other like this », he intones, publishing the latest polls.

And if the parts of the governor of Emilia Romagna remain skeptical about the real possibilities of accelerating times, Paola De Micheli also decides to participate in the pressing. “If the desire to reduce time really arises, my proposal is to present a statutory amendment to the National Assembly to go to an urgent congress, directly with the primaries open and with weighted voting worth two for deputies and one for voters. With this change, the primaries will be able to take place at the end of January or, at most, at the beginning of February», guarantees the former Minister of Transport.

Instead, Francesco Boccia preaches calmly. Elly Schlein’s motion coordinator invites us not to let ourselves be too influenced by the weekly polls: “We were the second party in the elections, we also need respect for a party that is a community”. As for the gazebos’ requests for anticipation, then, she summarizes: “It is not having respect for the members because it would mean annulling the clubs’ vote and we are an association, not an employer’s party”.

Not just a desire to run, though. In the last few hours, informs LaPresse, some requests have also reached Nazareno to postpone the gazebos: “The date is very close to the regional elections in Lazio and Lombardy (where voting will take place on the 12th and 13th). February) and the last day of voting on the wheels would coincide precisely with the vote for governors ».

The mouths remain closed on the subject at the headquarters of the dem: “No news” in the primaries, is the line. Meanwhile, tomorrow the three candidates for the secretariat and Enrico Letta will be together with Nazareno for the presentation of a document presented by «those of Veltroni’s Lingotto» (the copyright belongs to Stefano Ceccanti, one of the signatories along with Graziano Delrio , Stefano Graziano , Marianna Madia , Roberto Morassut, Pina Picierno, Debora Serracchiani, Giorgio Tonini, Walter Verini). The text argues that “the result of the 25th of September ended up calling into question the historic function of the Democratic Party, the very meaning of its existence” and underlines how “the ‘constituent’ spirit calls the cultural, political, territorial components of the party to an effort to converge towards what unites”. “Keeping together and harmonizing the two different tensions, Congress and the ‘constituent spirit’ is as difficult as it is essential”, he stresses. The prosecutors thus ask the secretary, “in his capacity as guarantor of the process, to favor the clear distinction between a dimension of constitutional revision, which without eliminating the fundamental principles privileges what unites, and a more properly congressional dimension, of confrontation and competition between platforms and candidates for the secretariat”.

Anyway, the contest is open. While waiting for Gianni Cuperlo, in the next few hours, to unravel «the arcane that is not arcane», Schlein continues his journey and also summons the “mayor of rights”, Stefania Bonaldi, the first citizen of Crema, to join the team .

He has no doubts about the result of the congress Matteo Renzi: “Bonaccini will clearly win”, the prediction. “The game is open”, however, for Nicola Zingaretti, who does not raise reservations about who will support, but distances himself from the governor of Emilia Romagna.