Pd, Letta is already with the suitcases
“The fate of Enrico Letta seems to be truly sealed by now. Of course he made some mistakes, but it seems that within the party, as usual, someone was waiting for nothing but a mistake from him to be able to then accuse him. It is a hackneyed story “. This is how a deputy of the Democratic Party, very close to Letta, expressed himself in recent days off record. A sentence that explains very well what must be, in these days, the sentiment of a man, like Enrico Letta, who abandoned, out of pure spirit of body, a safe place in Paris, well paid and full of personal satisfaction, at the School of International Affairs of theParis Institute of Political Studiesto respond to the call of his party pd comrades, desperate after the controversial resignation of the then secretary Nicola Zingarettiwho slammed the doors of the party (but without leaving his position as president of the region, which he will now leave for a secure seat in the Senate), after taking over from the interlocutory secretariat of Maurizio Martina.
This is yet another browning over low heat of another leader of a party that for too many years now seems to be unable to find a clear political line, much less a charismatic leader. To corroborate this thesis and give it more strength in recent days, two episodes that seem two clear indications of how the fate of Letta at the helm of the party now appears to be sealed, unless there are unlikely electoral exploits. One was the statement by Dario Franceschini to Republic (the Minister of Cultural Heritage speaks very little, and when he does it is almost always to give more or less surreptitious thrusts) which seemed to partially deny the words of the secretary of these days of electoral campaign on present and future alliances and open instead to a hypothetical rapprochement with the five stars, and more.
“I consider alenda and the Five Stars to be former allies who have decided to break with us by doing damage to the country, the others are adversaries. Is not the same thing. If it were necessary to form a coalition government we will see, but it is not today’s topic, ”said Franceschini, who has long been considered a sort of shadow secretary of the Democratic Party. This sentence comes a few hours after that of Conte who spoke openly of not wanting to make alliances with this leadership of the PD (clearly meaning the current secretary, with whom the clash seems to have now become more heated than with Meloni herself).
The second fact was the declaration of one of the great leaders of the party in the south, Michele Emiliano president of Puglia, who has clearly and expressly declared, to daily events (a newspaper that has always been very close to Conte, as Agatha Christie said on the three clues ..?) that in some colleges in the south it was convenient to vote who among the pd candidate or the five stars had a better chance of winning. If this is not an open, clear and sensational disavowal of the secretary’s line, who for days has been going around saying that every five-star rating would be equivalent to one given to Meloni, we don’t really know how to define it. Many analysts are not convinced that this tactic of “desistance»Can substantially change the result in single-member constituencies, where the winner is whoever takes one more vote and the votes of M5S and Pd do not add up.
On the other hand, Emiliano’s appeal makes it clear that i Five stars (in addition to the Democratic Party in Puglia and Naples) could actually expand more easily by removing votes from Letta, than to the detriment of Forza Italia and Lega. But this sensational statement by Emiliano, plastically represents what many within the Democratic Party think, in an ever clearer and clearer way, and that the choice not to ally with the five stars was a serious and gross mistake made by Letta. And it is for this reason that once the elections are over, Conte and the five stars, more than the result of the elections themselves, could be the casus belli to bring down the secretary, whose fate is now sealed.
In the party there are already some more or less reliable candidates on who could replace him, hoping that he is not yet another sacrificial lamb. In the last few hours, behind the very favorite Stefano Bonaccini (whom many now almost certainly consider to be the next secretary, even if the same thing was said of him when the leader was Zingaretti), the candidacy of a man not by chance very close is making its way. to Michele Emiliano, the mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro.
Enrico Letta is trying to save face at least, but he knows he has now lost the pulse of the party, always assuming he ever had it in his grasp. On the other hand, many argue that in the plans of the party’s ruling class, Letta had to be yet another man of transition (but how long will this blessed labor at the head of the party end …?) In a moment of difficulty, after the vote of the Europeans and subsequent administrative. Another time secretary, like Martina, Orfini and Cuperlo, before him. But the thing that obviously worked for a certain period, making a pd recover votes by now at the lowest terms, then seems to have got out of hand, when the secretary, against the opinion of Franceschini, Orlando and Provenzano and other big names in the party, sources inside the party say, he was adamant in rejecting the electoral alliance with the five stars, which, however, will be charged with interest after the elections have taken place.
On the other hand, Letta used the attitude of a man of principle, which he undoubtedly is, but he did not understand, that in a party that is always far from the people and close to the establishment and to principles and good manners matter very little. Who knows maybe Bonaccini or Decaro (but they also mention the names of the mayor of Florence Nardella or of the former minister Enzo Amendola) will know how to be more vigorous and tenacious than poor Letta, but also than poor Zingaretti and before poor Martina and before Cuperlo and even before Bersani or Epifani. Not surprisingly, Matteo Renzi was not mentioned, because perhaps he was the only one, in the last ten years of the party, not to be browned but to be he, for better or for worse, to give the cards anyway, to the within a party, which has always badly digested this very autonomy. Now September 25 will be yet another watershed for a party that will probably burn yet another secretary, for its desire to aim for what now seems to have become the only real purpose of its existence, to govern always and in any case, at cost. to make the opponent spit blood, as the good man said in Taranto Emilianoin front of his secretary (who knows for how long) Enrico Letta, two days ago.
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