Fate survival. At any cost, boarding anyone. And it doesn’t matter if the programs are distant, the ideas are often even antithetical or the allies can’t stand each other. Stefano Bonaccini’s magic formula for defeating the center-right that has become the government’s majority is to weave alliances with whatever it may be. Radical Left, Greens, Third Pole and Five Stars. You are all welcome. Yesterday afternoon, the current governor of Emilia Romagna, seen as a big favorite to succeed Enrico Letta, expressed a clear and transparent concept.
«Alliances are essential and by majority vocation I mean a party that does not delegate left-wing votes to Cinco Estrelas and moderates to the Third Pole, but that really wants to win back some votes from the center-right. We cannot be enough if we want to govern the country again, but I say this to the Third Pole and the Grillini: without the Democratic Party there will never be an alternative capable of defeating the right”.
Bonaccini himself then focused on the need for a radical change in the dem ruling class. “On this idea of changing the name of the Democratic Party, which someone proposed to submit to a referendum, I think we have to talk about substance. I would keep that word democratic very much alive. Enrico Berlinguer is a reference for my house. Now I see that Conte mentions this too, but that’s ok… and that’s ok too. I never used the word scrapping because people are not scrapped and above all because we don’t have to send anyone away – underlined the Modenese at the meeting held yesterday morning at the Pietralata wool factory, in Rome – Yes. But for that we need a ruling class that changes».
Listening to the fifty-six year old man speak, the most famous maxim of the most important book written by Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard, immediately comes to mind. “Everything must change so that everything remains as before.” Because, if it is true that a total restyling of the most important party of the Italian left is needed, which already fluctuates sadly between 13 and 14.8% in the polls, it is equally evident how the political line needs to be updated for the present. New ideas are needed, carried forward with courage, at the cost of displeasing someone. Bonaccini, who calls for a small revolution among the Botteghe Oscure executives, actually takes up Nicola Zingaretti’s idea in the progressive camp. An experienced politician like the president of Emilia cannot fail to know that Renzi and Calenda will never, ever accept an alliance that foresees the inclusion of Conte and Five Stars. And when this truism is revealed, Bonaccini will have to have the courage to decide whether he wants to move the axis to the left, and therefore opt for the Grillinis or look resolutely towards the center. To the Third Pole and maybe to a part of Forza Italia.
Fierce criticism of a party that does not want to shed its skin came yesterday from one of the most lucid minds in the progressive world, Gianni Cuperlo. «Stefano Bonaccini is a friend and I respect him. But behind him, as behind Elly, I see the whole usual, motionless establishment taking cover. I mean the politicians who weathered every storm without ever getting wet. And then I don’t just believe in the administrators’ party. The dual mandate, as demonstrated by the Zingaretti case, does not work. Above all, we must involve the managed. The Democratic Party must be refounded and open to movements, to society. Am I doomed to defeat? No, but this time the house is on fire and there are battles worth fighting. Giuseppe Conte, seems to want to destroy the Democratic Party. Just like Renzi. I’m also at this conference to help prevent it. I like Carlo Calenda. But in the Heart shot by his grandfather, more than the role of Enrico Bottini, he would have liked that of Franti».
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
