‘Pressing’ of the reformists on Schlein. And Zanda evokes congress

“Serve un extraordinary congress”. The word that nobody in the Democratic Party dares to pronounce the bright black on white Luigi Zanda that of the Democratic Party was co-founder. In an interview with La Stampa, the former Senator Dem focuses on the cyclone that invested the United States and Europe from the election of Donald Trump to the White House.

“In front of the extraordinary nature of the historical phase that we are experiencing and therefore the urgent and absolute need for the Democratic Party to give a clear line on politics international and European, The only place where a debate of this relief can take place in a frank and transparent way is an extraordinary congress “, he explains. The reference is to show the party before and during the European Council that discussed the rearmament plan presented by Ursula von der Leyen. On the one hand the line of the Secretary Elly Schlein, contrary to the plan. On the other that of the dem minority, in favor of what they call A “step forward” in the direction of a true common defense. A line, this, closer to that of the European group S&D to which the Democratic Party belongs.

“While Trump and Putin alone are deciding the fate of Europe”, observes Zanda, “while the world changes thus radically before our eyes, while we have war in Europe and in the Mediterranean, the main concern of the Democratic Party was to reject the president of the European Commission. Taking a position that does not coincide with that of the PSE”. Words that do not detach themselves much from those used by the dem reformists who, with different tones, They ask the secretary to support the European rearmament plan with greater conviction. The internal confrontation on Rearm, however, does not run out of the knots on the secretary’s table. The party saw the release of Annamaria Furlan yesterday, passed to Italy Viva. A choice that the senator explained with the differences of views on the themes for the exacerbation, Like work.

Furlan, in fact, was the protagonist of a long and heated assembly of the groups joined on the eve of the vote of the Montecitorio classroom on the bill presented by the CISL that provides for The participation of workers in the governance of companies. Furlan, and with her a group of parliamentarians of the internal minority (but not only), fought to bring the party line not to completely reject the proposal, so as to “do not slam the door in the face” to the CISL.

At the end of the assembly, however, the line of the secretary Schlein and the whole majority remained that of the ‘no’ to the law. In the classroom, then, the opening to some changes that came from the majority led the dem to abstain. But at that point the tear, for Furlan, was accomplished. A climate of internal tension that grows from weeks hand in hand with the activism of some ‘big’ of the Democratic Party, such as Paolo Gentiloni, Dario Franceschini, Goffredo Bettini and Romano Prodi (even if the professor for a few days seems to have chosen the line of silence, at least publicly).

More sweatshirts, but also decided, compared to the release of Zanda the interventions of some reformists, from Lia Quartapelle to Marianna Madia, passing through Lorenzo Guerini and Alessandro Alfieri. Exponents who have not failed to report their position in dissent compared to that of the secretariat on the rearmament plan and on the measures concerning the work. Carlo Calenda, leader of action: “Paolo Gentiloni and Lorenzo Guerini, certifies your existence in life of Pina Picierno and Filippo Sensi, is explicit to those representatives. It is the invocation of Calenda which, then, turns to Elly Schlein: “But did you drink your brain?”

The reference is to a post that appeared on the social networks of the Democratic Party in which, between irony and provocation, we congratulated Matteo Salvini for the title of the newspaper La Repubblica who makes the premier say “On arms you speak like the Democratic Party “, in an outlet with the vice premier. After Calenda, he is the vice -president of the European Parliament, Pina Picierno, to lash out against the post: “I am ashamed and I am very sorry. The Democratic Party has sprouted from the highest and most noble traditions in the political history of the country. He has Europeanism in his DNA. And it is clearly that this cannot be our positioning”. Just Picierno is among those who have marked their own with more strength opposed to the Schlein line.

Nobody, however, had ever gone to invoke the congress. Until today. And this, explains a parliamentary source of minority, for at least three reasons. The first is the electoral force shown by Schlein in the last rounds, with the party about ten points since 2022. The second is the consent that is still attributed to the premier and that discourages ‘blows of hand’ on leadership. Finally, the third reason – more prosaic – is that the electoral lists for the next policies are in the hands of Schlein and, without a safe alternative, few feel they questioned the guide.