Bonaccini, De Micheli, Schlein and Nardella: self-nominations flock to the Democratic Party

Pd, the dem to the congress: here are the latest self-nominations

To the Democratic party we need, in order: “a profound congress”, “a reset”, “a re-foundation”, “an update”, “a dismantling”. All accompanied by the most classic of the phrases that accompanied the Democratic Party in its 15 years of life: “It is not enough to change the secretary“. The fact is that to say it are prominent exponents, mayors and local administrators, ministers and dem parliamentarians. All candidates or ‘sponsors’ of candidates for the Pd secretariat.

While Enrico Letta he works in silence – his last statement dates back to Monday morning – on the dossiers concerning the role that awaits the party in the Chambers, first of all the presidencies of the guarantee commissions, self-nominations for the Nazarene are flooding.

The first in chronological order is that of Stefano Bonaccininame on which Base Riformista points, an area that gathers around Lorenzo Guerini. The president of Emilia-Romagna he has not yet dissolved the reservation, but he is already speaking as a candidate when he says that “it is not the time to start with names and surnames, it is a moment of regeneration of the party, to discuss the contents”.

The name that is spoken of with insistence in an anti key Bonaccini is that of its vice president, Elly Schlein. In the front row during the election campaign, Schlein earned the title of “Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of Italy”, thanks to a title in the Guardian that compared her to the deputy of the radical US dem area.

The name of Schlein it is done in several places, but she has not yet pronounced herself on the point. To fathom outgoing leaders and parliamentarians of the Democratic Party, however, few seem to believe in this Emilian derby: “A congress in which a regional president and his deputy face each other is not given in kind”, is explained by Pd sources.

“If then Schlein wins, Bonaccini would rule as a defeated by the secretary of his own party? “, one wonders. On the field also the mayors: from Matteo Ricci to Dario Nardellapassing through Antonio Decaro the tricolor bands dem seem to have started a congress within the congress, starting from their respective territories. Here too, the starting point is always the need to rethink the party from its foundations.

“We must have the ability to restart hope, for an angry and disheartened people. We have to find the space to rethink a political entity that was born 15 years ago and that needs to update its thinking, its action “, says Ricci, mayor of Pesaro and coordinator of the dem mayors.” In this scenario, no one can pull backwards. And the mayors cannot escape “.

In fact, neither Antonio Decaro, mayor of Bari and president of Anci, nor the mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, are exempt. The first did not formalize his descent into the field, but he already speaks as a candidate when he says that “it is the entire model on which the Democratic Party is based that must be dismantled. Enough with the current leaders who make and undo the lists of their own image and likeness.

Enough of this exercise of power for power. Enough with self-preservation as the only aim of politics “. On the same wavelength is the colleague from Florence:”Reset everything, without taking the horse race“, says Nardella:” I do not hold back when it comes to building a new management team “, he adds. Last in chronological order is the candidacy of Paola De Micheli, given for certain by sources close to her. The former Minister of Infrastructure and Transport has been very close to Secretary Letta in the past, but it would not be a candidacy to be linked to the outgoing secretariat, in which she has no office.

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