Giuseppe Conte takes over the scene inside the center-left and corners Elly Schlein again. The Bari affair, with all that follows in judicial and political terms, brings the president of the 5 Star Movement back into the limelight, with the Democratic Party put under pressure. It is difficult not to foresee further consequences after the former prime minister’s decision to skip the primaries in view of the administrative elections in the Apulian capital. «It was quite easy to predict that the PD’s relationship with the M5S would be toxic in nature. Conte, for the umpteenth time in Bari, tells Schlein “either I’m in charge or nothing will happen”. Thus the Democratic Party has gone from the vocation of being a majority to that of being dominated”, observes, not surprisingly, the president of the Lib Dems, Andrea Marcucci.
«Welcome to planet earth, nation of Italy, dear Elly Schlein. Did it take Bari’s slap in the face to wake up the Nazarene from his Thai-style ideological fascinations?”, ironically for his part the group leader of Italia viva in the Senate, Enrico Borghi, according to whom “in politics we must be consistent and draw the conclusion that the entire political line of the so-called “wide field” is a failure, and useful only to allow the right easy victories of income. Because otherwise, dear Elly, we are not engaging in politics, but situationism.”
The one to put the knife in the wound is Osvaldo Napoli, of the national secretariat of Action, for whom «the confusion in which the Democratic Party finds itself is not a problem only of that party, because it ends up having repercussions on the other opposition forces, it conditions them strategies and paths. The show staged in Bari – Napoli continues – arouses great sadness because it is politics as a whole that is humiliated by it. The Democratic Party that chases Conte, and fights with him because he never misses an opportunity to raise the price of an agreement or half an agreement, is putting its head under the cleaver of this improvised Torquemada. Schlein is in time, perhaps, to save the party from the gallows on which Conte wants to hang it.”
The center-right has an all too easy time claiming its unity and commenting on the tensions, to put it mildly, in what we can perhaps dismiss as the wide field. «We are talking about the candidatures for the European elections, we are closing those for the municipal elections, wherever possible we have worked as a League for a compact centre-right which is the added value. The divisions seem to me to be all on the other side, with Conte and Schlein giving each other a good fight. But let’s not wait for other people’s mistakes to win. Let’s look at our own home”, the declarations from Turin, from the conference “Differentiated autonomy of the Regions with ordinary statute”, by the deputy prime minister, minister of Infrastructure and Transport, and leader of the League, Matteo Salvini.
Concepts reiterated by the deputy and national head of the Forza Italia Departments, Alessandro Cattaneo, who speaking on «Omnibus», on La7, underlines: «We present ourselves with a strong history and with the name of President Berlusconi in the symbol. Being pro-European, pro-guarantee and liberal was not easy, but today the situation has changed and the unity of the coalition, seeing the images of Conte and Schlein fighting each other, is fundamental. Everyone thought that we would end up in pieces, but in reality we have been governing for thirty years in important Regions and Municipalities, because in the end we always find the synthesis”.
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2024-04-07 17:33:24