“What if a rainbow appeared?”, asked Luigi de Magistris accepting Michele Santoro’s invitation to form a common front for peace and against war in Ukraine, at Café Versiliana, in Marina di Pietrasanta, in the province of Lucca, in the event this Saturday, 26. August. The convergence between the former rai and the leader of the Unione Popolare, a former magistrate and former mayor of Naples, sparked rumors of a new left party focused on pacifism, a militant left in opposition to Elly’s “Atlantis” Democratic Party. Schlein. . “The «no” to war would therefore be the glue of the umpteenth formation of the left of the Democratic Party that, together with Verdi, the Italian Left and the various associations of the Third World and «handcuffs», hopes to cross the threshold in the next European elections ”, explains the newspaper in the background.
In short, Santoro and de Magistris point to the Europeans, but what are the odds? At the moment, “talking about a list or a party is still a utopia”, but the journalist “dreams of returning to Brussels”. You will have to collide with the numbers. Carlo Buttaroni, founder of Instituto Tecné, explains that “on the left there is an excess of political offer” environmentalist, movementist, pacifist, anti-capitalist, anti-Atlantic and so on. In short, “in the end, everyone fishes in the same constituency. For those who reach 3%, there are those who go down to 2% or 1%”. Federico Benini, founder of Winpoll, explains that ten years ago the left-left sank and today “Schlein’s Democratic Party is also very popular among those who vote more to the left and, therefore, there is an increasingly restricted vote” on that side.
Furthermore, will pacifism suffice as the only glue? Antonio Noto knows that “a single issue” is not enough to convince voters, as confirmed by the fact that “the Retired party never exceeds 1%. The same is true of the Greens, although Italians pay more attention to the environment than in the past”. Among the pollsters interviewed, only Alessandro Amadori is more optimistic, even if the numbers remain basic: “There are 2-4% of the electorate that ended up in a non-voting area or among the Cinquestelle and who could be attracted by the Santorin project”.
Source: IL Tempo
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