An announced defeat that, however, burns just the same. At the headquarters of the commissions of the two main candidates for the DEM secretariat, the atmosphere is low. At Pd’s house, the fear is that one more collapse will not be an aftershock but that all the fortifications, the main wall, will collapse.
In short, if the regionals were supposed to be a sadomasochistic test to decide whether it hurts less to lose with the Third Pole in Lazio or with the 5Stelle in Lombardy, the test failed miserably. The flop is large scale, double. The opposition fails to build a credible alternative. Stefano Bonaccini cannot console himself because, for his detractors, he remained Renziano in the soul. But not even Elly Schlein, who would like a completely left-wing Democratic Party and hoped that these elections would result in a precise nomination for the next European elections. With one or the other you lose anyway. He gets lost across the board. And you lose badly: by detachment.
With the surrender of Pisana handed over to Francesco Rocca. And the regions where the center-right rules, which are now 15 out of 20. Coat of Arms. One defeat leads to another. After September 25th came February 13th. In view of the primaries scheduled for two weeks from now, a bad sign. Which of the two will prevail, Bonaccini, with about 20 points ahead in the clubs’ voting or Schlein who bets everything on the lookouts, will have to start over from the rubble.
The conclusion of the parliamentary phase – in all regions, except for the two where the polls were held, where the deadline is extended to February 19 – raised troop morale by a few millimetres. A depression now 5 months long. But if the allies change, if you take it out of one oven or another and the result remains the same, the answer can only be one: the problem is not with whom you are allied, but with the Democratic Party and, therefore, with the mistakes by Enrico Letta. The one thing everyone agrees on.
“At a time when the wind is blowing in the opposite direction, we continue to be the greatest force in the opposition”, consoles the outgoing secretary, who remains the main defendant. «Now we are an international case – responds Milan Majorino, disappointed with the clear defeat – having chosen the candidate just two months before the vote and while internal consultations were taking place was not a good idea. And without a defined national leadership, which is not yet under construction, the center-left would have to present itself as a united front».
Less direct, but still critical Alessio D’Amato: “Congressional procedures that did not help us need to be revised.” With twice as many votes, he obtained the same percentage of votes as Nicola Zingaretti (about 32%). Moratti’s list continues outside Pillone. Action and Italia Viva receive fewer votes than Donna Letizia. But stoning defeated candidates, as some would now like, makes no sense. It’s the Pd, the Nazarene brand that – in addition to the large booty, a photocopied vote in the face of the past – no longer pulls. Starting with the name that, after having linked a long series of collapses, now many would like to change.
The performance of Alessio D’Amato, former health councilor much desired by Carlo Calenda at Lazio, was unsuccessful. The split in Lombardy was devastating where the Democratic Party (more or less stable at around 21%) fired back at Deputy Majorino. A UFO shot down from the sky over Milan to please the grillini. Some expected a festival effect, others dusted off their clenched fists. And who secretly would have preferred to assert their line that between the two losers one of the two was less than the other. That’s not how it happened. And the fight goes on. Bonaccini leads in Sicily with 42.2% against 36.9% for Schlein, in Calabria with 53% against 21% for the competitor. But in the city of Bologna it is almost the same: 45.45% of the governor against 42.24% of the former leader of Occupy pd. A family race to ride the losers’ bandwagon.
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.
