A real bolt from the blue on the left. Another case of the opposition that is in no way able to recover ground in the center-right. The words of Eleonora Evi, deputy of the Green-Left Alliance, are causing a stir: “I do not intend to continue playing the role of female co-spokesperson for Green Europe which, in fact, is reduced to a mere front office. For this reason, I resign as co-spokesperson, remaining firmly convinced of the need for a courageous and contemporary Italian ecological project, and not yet another personal and patriarchal party. I quit. I will not be the ‘pinkwashing’ puppet. Over the last year, my figure has been increasingly obscured and so, in fact, the role of female co-spokesperson of the party has been cancelled, on a political and communicative level. The systematic deviation of my figure would matter little if this were not the sign and just one of the numerous symptomatic expressions of the party’s authoritarian and autarchic drift, as happened when the National Federal Council, a body with political power by statute, was in fact called for ratification of choices already made elsewhere and announced in the press. Or even, the request that I repeated several times for information on the health status of the party (affiliates, active federations, commissioners, etc.), obtaining partial or zero responses”.
The Facebook post completely surprises the Greens: “I can say that I am sure that I made every effort, also to make the construction of a route visible to the outside. However, surprisingly, after the 2022 elections something triggered an almost indecipherable short circuit. After a long absence, the Greens return to Parliament with one senator and six deputies. Among the latter also the undersigned. Suddenly, the former leaders began to build a wall against me, and this was because I had different ideas and claimed, as national co-spokesperson, to be aware, for example, of political decisions on lists, alliances and strategies. of the electoral campaign. From this moment on, when I expressed positions or views not aligned with those of management during national management meetings and publicly, I was accused – continues Evi – of ingratitude towards the ‘green family’ who welcomed me and offered me a seat in Parliament . Alternative ideas, proposals or visions, if not complementary, to those of the party establishment, in fact, generate unexpected reactions in their exponents, sometimes of closure, sometimes of mistrust or suspicion. Sometimes patronizing and empty condescension. Not infrequently, resentment, revenge. For a party that has among its objectives the defense of biodiversity, as a very precious element for the survival of the planet, it is decidedly disappointing to see that this value cannot be applied within the party itself, thus crushing and mortifying a healthy and dialectical society constructive internal, also and above all when it takes place from territorial bodies”.
The dismissal of the Green Europe co-spokesperson was commented as follows by Angelo Bonelli, another Green Europe co-spokesperson: “It is absolutely surprising. There was a political differentiation on how to go to the European elections, she ended up in the minority. I supported the continuity of the Green-Left Alliance while it wanted to go it alone and from there it grew. Patriarchal party? It is a very serious and absolutely false accusation, we are the only party with gender equality”.
Source: IL Tempo
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