“Here you are, of course you are. And you stay”. The message that comes from the reformists gathered at Prato it is aimed at the majority of the party who, a few kilometers away, meet to ‘armor’ the secretary Elly Schlein. Two events that exchange their ideas about the party. In the front row, at the Garibaldi Theater Tuscan citythere are two samples of preferences for the regional elections as Matteo Biffoni e Brenda Barinisupported by the ‘hard core’ of the reformists in Parliament: Lorenzo Guerini, Giorgio Gori, Simona Malpezzi e Filippo Sensi. The focus is onmanufacturing company – and given the location it couldn’t be otherwise – the ‘technical’ interventions are entrusted to Lucia Aleottivice-president of Confindustria, to the former parliamentarian Tommaso Nannicinia Marco Bentivogli. The ‘internal’ signal, however, is that of “reformist tents” outside the Democratic Party – as theorized, among others, by Goffredo Bettiniwe don’t talk about it.
Sensi, one of the most active senators in the reorganization work of the Democratic Party minorityobserves that “the reformism he has become a kind of enemy of the people, elite and punishment. So much so that I feel like asking: what did we do wrong? Why all this fear, this annoyance, even a hint of arrogance? Now, I understand the right”, adds Sensi. “The right and reformism don’t go together very well. In three years of government they have done nothing”. What is difficult to understand, for the representatives gathered in Prato, is the hostility they register within the centre-left and inside the Pd. Without naming them by surname, indicating them only by their first name, Sensi responds to the various big names who have ‘cannonballed’ the reformist wing in recent months.
“Goffredo, I use this pseudonym and I approach it with fear and trembling, he reminded us how reformism is a ‘misunderstood, betrayed and badly said’ word, only the ‘e’ is missing. ‘Misleading’, he says. As if there were one and only one path, and not rather a common path, bumpy, tiring, but engaging. A word, Goffredo said again, ‘to be dropped because it is ideological’. It struck me this attack, because the accusation of ideology is usually leveled at us by the right, which presents pragmatism as its ideology”.
Living room reformism and the Montepulciano motion
Stefano is the president of the Democratic Party Bonaccini: Mol (Continued) “He branded us as ‘armchair reformists‘, invoking parliamentarians to weigh the votes on the proposals. Now, to stick to the European elections, a year ago, it’s not that people like Pina “Picierno” or Giorgio “Gori” didn’t get their votes, out of thousands of people who wrote their name and surname on the ballot. The fact is that this boring reformism”, observes Sensi, “is scary, an annoyance that I won’t tell you, an itch. Particularly in our area. I greet the comrades of the Montepulciano motionwe’re here too, even if you think you’re enough on your own. We are here. That’s it, if you are. And we stay”, is Sensi’s opinion for which the Democratic Party “it is reformist or it is not. And it is reformist not to have one and only one definition of reformism. And above all not to think that it is the only valid one. A reformism that is method. And openness. And attempt. And try and try again”.
Reformism: sick word or method?
The list of ‘comrades of the Montepulciano motion’ continues: “Let’s take another name at random, Arturo”. And here the reference is to the deputy Scotto. “It says: the reformism It’s a sick word. It reminds me of the old days of Cofferatiit was the year 2002, I wouldn’t want to go back to more than twenty years ago, in terms of looking forward or backward. Now I really can’t distinguish between healthy words and sick words, maybe because I’m not a doctor. As if sick were less, worth less, lacked that integrity, that purity, that absolute that decides whether something is healthy or sick, right or unworthy, clean or dirty”.
The catalog of reforms of the Democratic Party
Again: “I also say this to Andrea, a fictitious name”, behind whom it is not difficult to recognize the former minister Orlando“who recently, at a conference, complained that “the word reformism is consumed in conferences where it is evoked, but never produces a catalog of reforms”. Obviously stigmatizing ‘the reformism from above‘ – to me who exaggerate 1.71 – which, however, Andrea himself knows well, having played a leading role and roles of great responsibility in a government reform season which led to the civil unions or at the end of blank resignationto say just two things. So dear Andrea, code name, the catalog of reforms that the Democratic Party what he has done in all these years and what he will continue to do, when we go into government, after five years of right-wing desertion, we wrote it together, and we will write it together.”
Music and message: “Getting better”
Part on jingle chosen for the day’s work. Again i Beatlesas in Milan when the reformists said their ‘farewell’ to the season of the Bonaccini-led Dem minority. Then she was chosen”Revolution” which, despite the title, is a piece that mocks some revolutionary ambitions. This time, the song is a program: “Getting Better“, improving or improving.