Lazio regionals and war in the Democratic Party, Marianna Madia’s name appears after Zingaretti

Mariana sideboard. This is the name that perhaps indicates the most important piece of a Pd mosaic that is very complex to compose but which, piece by piece, is already taking shape, certainly giving more logical explanations than the quarrel over football faith – about the reason for being publication of the shock video that led to the resignation of Mayor Roberto Gualtieri’s chief of staff, Albino Ruberti, and the withdrawal of Francesco De Angelis’ candidacy. “Distracted” perhaps by the election campaign for the Sept. 25 policies, few focus on regionals in January. A game, at the local level, much more important than parliamentary seats.

Ten years of Zingaretti behind, four years of Gualtieri in front. In the midst of Jubilee 2025, the candidacy for Expo 2030 and many billions from the PNRR on the way. A centre-right also ran in Lazio, where the September vote will be repeated, probably with little difference, not four months later. And the trump card of the Democratic Party would be Marianna Madia to be nominated for the leadership of a Region that, to this day, appears more in the balance than ever. The former minister, parliamentarian for four terms despite his young age (41 years old), happy “discovery” of the then secretary of the dem, Walter Veltroni, is a candidate in the proportional college of Viterbo. The same that Patrizia Prestipino had to resign and that unleashed the ire of most exponents of the Roman Democratic Party. This same college was aimed at Enrico Panunzi, a well-known local exponent of the dem and who, coincidentally, was offered the place – College Lazio 1 – of the renouncer Francesco De Angelis. Again, the most credible reconstruction of the famous June dinner that later resulted in the dispute in which Ruberti makes us suppose, with the phrases «I buy you me? Will you buy me?” addressed to Vladimiro De Angelis (Francesco’s brother), a bargaining attempt to support the renaming of outgoing fellow and regional councilor, Sara Battisti.

An investigation, the one that started from the publication of the video four days after the closing of the lists, that could reserve more surprises. Indeed, the first interrogations would have begun. The step from the Region to the Capitol has always been very short. In the logic of changing a too shifted balance in the Mancini-Zingaretti-Astorre axis, and which saw in the role of Ruberti in the Campidoglio its “operative” expression, we resorted to friendly fire. A fire that hit the double target and sent a very clear message about the need for a new balance entirely within the party. Here, then, is the Letta-Franceschini axis.

Here comes the newspaper Madia, candidate for the proportional so that its eventual “exit” would not lead to a by-election, and its declaration on the eve of the Middle World about participation in the primaries for the place then won by Ignazio Marino in 2013 “In the Democratic Party from Rome I met criminal associations” to elevate her as a defender of a legality that could be very useful, especially if other aspects of a story destined to affect not only Lazio’s vote emerge from Frosinone’s prosecutor.