Elly Schlein, after several years, today brings the Democratic Party back to the streets, trying to build a famously broad field with all left-wing parties. In fact, Giuseppe Conte and a delegation from M5S will participate in the event together with Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli from the Italian Left. But the real challenge for Schlein will be getting people there and filling Rome’s Piazza del Popolo. The organizational machine talks about the arrival of 175 buses and 7 special trains. 150 volunteers were mobilized who will have the task, among other things, of looking at posters and flags: the war in the Middle East also placed peace as the central theme of the demonstration and the dem’s request is that there only be rainbow flags alongside those of the Democratic Party.
So Schlein chose the easiest and most Pilatesque solution: no banners praising Palestine or even pro-Israel. Gazebos will also be set up for signing the minimum wage and registering. The program only includes Stefano Bonaccini, president of the party, and Schlein who will close the event on stage. For the rest, there are no politicians, but only personalities and stories from civil society, from the doctor to the La Perla trade unionist in crisis, to the writer Maurizio De Giovanni and the new mayor of Foggia, candidate from the “very broad” field to Mamadou Kouassi, the Senegalese mediator who inspired the film «I Captain» by Matteo Garrone. Immigration becomes a very topical issue with the Italy-Albania agreement.
Yesterday, without directly mentioning the protocol signed between Giorgia Meloni and Edi Rama, Schlein attacked extraterritorial models of managing migratory flows before the audience at the PSE congress in Malaga, like that of Libya and as Meloni tries to do with Tunisia and the Albania. No more “externalization of European borders”, said Schlein. A hot topic in Malaga. Both because Rama is an observer member of the PSE, and because of the short circuit in the Democratic Party on Thursday with the call for the expulsion of the Albanian Prime Minister from the PSE which was then clarified, and because the Germany of the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz is not so against outsourcing.
Keeping “social rights and civil rights” together, repeated the secretary of the Democratic Party to the PSE. We will talk about this today, highlighting first of all what is wrong with the Meloni government’s maneuver and what should be there. And then the climate, the right to education and housing, flood funds that are not enough. The group’s leader in the Senate, Francesco Boccia, states: «They equate a constitutional reform that humiliates the head of state to Calderoli’s Spacca Italia. They do this to cover up the government’s inability to deal with high prices and economic emergencies. We will be on the streets to demonstrate for public health, for wages and against an unfair maneuver that humiliates Italy and Parliament”.
Source: IL Tempo
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