Centre-left, the Constitution is the cornerstone of the programme. Sparkles in the center

The center-left grappling with the ‘totonomi’ for the future alliance. The ‘game’ was launched yesterday by Giuseppe Conte. How to call the constitution progressive alliance. The M5S leader, on the stage of the Teatro de’ Servi, proposed Alliance for the Constitution and Democracy: Acd. Name that recalls the battle against the justice reform won by border of the No.

The center-left and the battle against the electoral law

But beyond the ‘totonomi’ there is a very precise idea behind it, that of mobilizing the electorate as happened during the referendum, starting from the battle against the electoral law. A battle which, according to centre-left sources, the leaders intend to put at the center of their political action, starting from the appointments of 8 and 15 July, in the two squares (we are talking about Naples and, probably, Padua) called for in the programme.

Meloni and the ‘Quirinale on the right’ agitate the centre-left

The words of the prime minister Giorgia Meloni on the election of the next President of the Republicin the eyes of the centre-left leaders, have raised the stakes: the shared idea is that the government, after having attempted to reform the justice system and the premiership, is looking for a new way “to overturn the Constitution” and plant its flag on the highest hill too.

The ‘totonomi’ on the Alliance

Despite this, in Transatlantic there are those who, between one vote and another in the Chamber, participate in the whole name: Angelo Bonelli he considers the one put on the plate by the ally a denomination “a little too long and with an unpronounceable acronym”. And he relaunches: “Alliance for peace and work or rather, Alliance for peace and the environment: Apa”.

Calenda: “Can I participate in the competition?”

Not that there is a specific obligation to present themselves under the same banner and with a single name. Indeed, if we probe the mood of the deputies, the idea does not arouse any enthusiasm and few seem willing to subordinate the name of their own party to that of the coalition. The fact is that the game is also gaining ground on social media and those who have already made it known that they are not willing to sit in the same coalition with Bonelli, Fratoianni and Conte are also participating.

“This competition is beautiful,” he writes Carlo Calenda on social media: “Can I participate? I propose the Anti-Western Populist Alliance, it is more true”, the dig from the Action leader.

The center of the coalition

Then there are those who have already set up another container that looks more to the center and which aims to gather the consensus of the reformist and moderate electorate. This is the case of Matteo Renzi which, by renaming the parliamentary groups in Rome and Brussels, “Casa Riformista” responded to the takeover bid launched in the center by Progetto Civico of Alessandro Onorato. Beyond the names, the race for that piece of the electorate is in full swing and there is an overheating in the tone of the debate.

Internal tensions in the center-left

After the sparks registered by Renzi and Conte last week, today he is the former minister Vincenzo Spadafora to throw arrows at the Capitoline councilor: “When Alessandro Onorato says ‘I’m here, whoever wants to join’ he’s not building an open process, he’s making an escape forward”, says Spadafora, creator of ‘Primavera’.

“And, in fact, he is trying to impose leadership before having opened a real discussion. But what should we unite on? On an operation that he has behind Goffredo Bettini and which brings together pieces of local power that the Democratic Party struggles to include but does not want to lose? Where is the new idea? Or the ability to speak to Italians?”.