There is bitterness in the center-left. And no, it is not a typo. Because in the Campo Largo construction site – a name better for playing Monopoly than for making agreements – there are more vetoes than votes. It is there, in the control room that the leaders are setting up, that the issues are starting to come to a head. There is talk of a barrier but it is not the electoral threshold: it is the one placed in the path of the centrists, starting with Matteo Renzi and his Italia Viva. He never misses an opportunity to profess his newfound loyalty to Elly Schlein. “I only speak to her,” he reiterates in interviews. The message is clear, the appeal is for Schlein to guarantee the entry of the Renzians into the coalition. Not everyone is convinced. And this is evident in the intense discussions in Montecitorio, on the sidelines of the work.
Schlein meets and chats with Riccardo Magi of Più Europa. Then he reaches the M5s leader Giuseppe Conte. It would have been the occasion to show the intolerance of his parliamentarians, activists, voters – towards the hypothesis of an agreement with the hated archenemies Renzi. A long and intense conversation begins. Then, both the Democratic secretary and the Five Star president, in two separate moments, meet the representatives of the Green and Left Alliance Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli. In the meantime, Renzi insists on wanting to place Iv in the alliance that he would like to be “broad”. But, starting from Liguria, where the vote will take place at the end of October, in Transatlantic there is more than a little discontent from the Avs sides on the hypothesis of an expansion of the field to include Renzi. In Genoa, someone points out, Iv is in the majority with the center-right. “Would Renzi be ready to leave?”, jokes a red-green deputy. And down he mocked the electoral weight of those knocking on the door: «M5s and Avs together are worth almost 20%, are we sure that Renzi will reach 1%?». Looking up from Liguria and turning it to Rome, in the Avs area it is clear that there is no veto on the center area, but strong doubts about the credibility of a project with a name like Renzi inside, «supporter of projects like the Jobs Act that Schlein herself calls into question».
On the one hand, Renzi does not deny “a divisive past”, but invites us to look to the future. On the other, after the bilateral meeting with Conte, Fratoianni reiterates that “to be competitive” we need to build “an alternative, a credible project”. “Politics is not a football match, or even a charity match…”, he adds. Bonelli is more explicit, recalling the “mistakes made by the Renzi government”. “We must not fall back into the mechanisms of the past, today if we think about this method we are making a dramatic mistake”. The greatest resistance, as we were saying, comes from the M5S. The 5-Star leader Giuseppe Conte, a few days ago, had already called for “a clear and credible project and with reliable traveling companions”. Even the bridge between the PD and 5S, Goffredo Bettini, had clarified last week that “opening up to centrists does not mean accepting someone’s personalisms”. Laura Boldrini, Pd, also stressed the need to evaluate Renzi’s loyalty to the new line in the medium term: “To beat the right, we need a strong and cohesive alliance based on concrete proposals and projects for the country. A left-wing, progressive alliance that cannot exist without the Pd. We will measure who is in and who is not on the basis of content. A method that applies to everyone, including Renzi. And whoever is in must demonstrate loyalty.” Here is the request for blood tests again. And here is Renzi in the square yesterday morning in Rome, improvising a stall to collect signatures against the differentiated autonomy, “a reform that is bad for Italy.” Will the daily confirmation of alignment with the center-left be enough? The newly elected Democratic MEP, Giorgio Gori, cautiously open-minded, hopes so: “I see some stomach aches, and I’m sorry, because I consider the contribution that the liberal-democratic formations can make to the coalition project to be important. I hope they can be overcome. In the past there have been disagreements and misunderstandings. In several passages personalisms have prevailed. Today everyone has the responsibility to think about the country”.
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2024-08-10 19:53:03
