Pd, Marcucci in confrontation with Schlein: “He wants to kill the reformers to recreate the DS”

An explosive interview, the latest symptom of a deeply divided Democratic Party. Speaking to Repubblica is Andrea Marcucci, former leader of the dem group in the Senate and exponent of the current reformist Base, who will attack Elly Schlein: “If I leave the leaders of Schlein’s Democratic Party, I’m doing you a favor. Schlein’s strategy is clear. Take out the reformist area, the Liberal Democrats. To remake the DS, but without the nobility of the DS. It’s Goffredo Bettini’s line, a decisive turn to the left, to compete for the 5 Star Movement. A strategy that makes sense, I admit, the Pd is better at 25% and the M5S below 10%. But then there can be no place for those who have liberal and popular ideas”.

Marcucci also criticizes Stefano Bonaccini: “Before the congress, in hindsight, he was wrong to take victory for granted and endorse the rules of the primaries. He won among the members, let’s remember that. Very little has been achieved in secretarial training. The numerical ratios are very far from the congress result among the members, but also from the primary result. He would not have made agreements, he would have stayed outside the secretariat, to let the internal dialectic live ”. “I am among those who think that our reflections of these years have been soundly defeated. And that this secretariat wants to delegitimize these positions. If yes, then I would say no, it doesn’t exist anymore. I hope I’m wrong” the bitter commentary on the fate of the reformist base in the Democratic Party.

Source: IL Tempo

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