Tarquinio and Strada are at risk –

Mira Brunello

March 31, 2024

Elly Schlein’s strategy for the European elections fell apart over the composition of the lists. The revolt of the dem women, enraged once morest the batch of “civic” faces, set off a bomb (politically speaking). So much so that the secretary is preparing to take more than one step back. Demonstrating the disconnect that exists between her loyalists and the rest of the Democratic Party. After almost a year of exhausting internal conflict, everything is up in the air once more, despite Schlein hoping to use the June vote to definitively certify his leadership in the party. «Sweep away the minority and the caciques», the objective that the secretary had conveyed to the “magic tortellino” (with a splash of “Negroamaro” brought by the Apulian Francesco Boccia) who took office with her at the Nazareno. Hence the idea of ​​creating a sort of dem “running board”: Elly at the top of the list in all the constituencies, to immediately set the record straight. It is that the suggestion made by the most structured of her supporters, the president of the Dem senators, does not achieve the desired effect. The party is in turmoil, Elly Schlein would be the first secretary to do so, none of her predecessors, not even Matteo Renzi, had dared to attempt the grand slam. So, let’s all stop, unaware of Nanni Moretti’s definitive warning (“no, no debate”), let’s discuss it “comrades”. Thus, in an agitated climate, the “crazy idea” was born from a student assembly (even if Roberto Benigni would define it as “a loose mess”).

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Insert the secretary at number three in all constituencies, except for the Islands where he might have opened the lists. However, the “genius” was evidently not enough, the final touch was needed to make the party completely implode. A specialty that is widely recognized in the magical world of Elly, amateurs in disarray for many old officials who flourish in the parliamentary groups (and among them Enrico Morando who says «there is no strategic horizon, there is a tactical error»). That is, the pleasant suggestion: putting five civic women at the top of the list (actually 4, because Annalisa Corrado, hypothesized for the North East, is actually internal). Heavens above, in a few hours the Democratic Party is upside down, women are leading the revolt, even Stefano Bonaccini, preferred to the green fundamentalist and almost unknown Corrado, loses his temper. In Brussels the parliamentary group mutinies, plus there is trouble with some external candidates who agitate the opposition, those of the former director of Avvenire Marco Tarquinio, and Cecilia Strada, who blatantly call into question the position of the Democratic Party regarding the war in Ukraine.

So everything falls apart, and Elly is forced to review her plans. Or rather the governor of Emilia Romagna (who will return to the polls in October) already mocked in the primaries, should win his tug of war and open the list in the North East, the MEP Camilla Laureti (the only one who voted for Schlein in the gazebos ) might be the head of the list in the Centre, followed by the restless Nicola Zingaretti, the very presence of the secretary in all the constituencies as number three might be rethought, to arrive at the sole head of the list in the Islands. The only asset on which the Nazarene’s dreams of glory were based was based on the polarization of the comparison with Giorgia Meloni. A strategy that shows its limits, because while waiting for the Prime Minister’s decisions, the Democratic Party has fallen apart. An outcome also determined by the failed management of the regional elections, also in Sardinia, where the broad camp won, but handing over the presidency of the Region to the “almost friend” Giuseppe Conte.
Not to mention Basilicata and Piedmont, where the puzzle of applications ultimately displeased everyone. So now at the magistrate’s court of “humarells” who wander idly around the chasms created by Elly’s magical world, all that remains is to hope for a result. The thud of the secretary that no one had seen coming. As in many cases happens with exceptional atmospheric events.