After the militant summer, Elly Schlein is heading for another failure

After a militant summer that few noticed, Schlein relaunches himself with the “autumn of mobilization”. There is a party to resume, an opposition to rebuild and above all European elections in which the watchword is not to win but to obtain a good result. And then the secretary outlines the path and above all the topics: from work to health, including housing, growth and the cost of living. We start with tomorrow’s CGIL demonstration “The main road” for work, against precariousness, against all wars and for peace, for increased wages and pensions, for public health and schools, for environmental protection, for defense and implementation of the Constitution, in which the Democratic Party also participates. Then, on Sunday, there will be the mobilization for the minimum wage. «We have made a commitment with all opposition forces – said Schlein who signed the minimum wage – to have a big “signature day” with banquets throughout Italy and when relaunching the collection of signatures, we will need it to arrive stronger in Parliament» .

There will then be an initiative on industrial policies with Stefano Bonaccini and the presentation of the National Housing Plan on October 27th in Venice. Until the key event on November 11th to which Schlein invites all “those who feel the need to build an alternative to the right”. But in the report that the secretary presented yesterday to the Dem Board, an important chapter was dedicated to the European elections, defined by the leader as a “decisive junction” because “Europe is our internal policy”. An appointment that Democrats intend to achieve by joining forces with European socialists. For this reason, Schlein has scheduled an event for “a major European conference” in early December. A demonstration about Europe in which “we must bring together the new generation of Europeans. It is with the new generations that we must plan the future. It is a path that must begin immediately and that, with other territorial appointments, must lead us to develop a strong proposal from the Democratic Party on the future of Italy. We will do this in the name and memory of our beloved David Sassoli,” said Schlein.

There are no doubts about community alliances, but regarding internal ones there are some more unknowns. Above all because relations with the 5 Star Movement are particularly tense, as many noticed during the Area Dem event in Palermo. Conte and Schlein stayed in the same room and didn’t speak to each other for two hours. Schlein, however, pretends that nothing happened and warns: «Never indulge in controversy and make distinctions because we feel that our people are asking us to make an effort to converge on specific and concrete issues». The priority for 2024, where in addition to the European elections there will also be local elections, is “building the winning alliance”. Afterwards, perhaps also to calm some internal differences, the Democratic leader reiterated that the Democratic Party is “on the side of Ukraine” because “it is unacceptable for anyone to think about rewriting the borders with the army”. During the leadership there was also a moment in memory of the recently deceased president emeritus Giorgio Napolitano. Last passage on the growth forecasts for 2024, which according to Schlein «are overestimated, the debt forecasts incorporate 20 billion privatizations in three years: they are an unrealistic target». And once again “it doesn’t take much to blow up the accounts, difficult accounts and a maneuver without the necessary answers due to the inertia of a government that spent an entire year just planting flags in the eyes of the most fragile”.

Source: IL Tempo

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