Bersani: “Pd voters have not disappeared, but demotivated. We need to build an alternative to the right”

An alternative to the right must be built, otherwise voters will continue to distance themselves from the party. After debacle in the last administrative elections, Pierluigi Bersani analyzes the defeat of the left and to the broadcast Half past eight on La7 says: “The right has a government and a coalition, two things that attract voters. The Democratic Party and the other parties have an opposition to do and show that a possible alternative is being built, because otherwise the centre-left voters are demotivated, they are dem voters, Cinquestelle or others”.

The problem, therefore, according to the former prime minister, is not so much the construction of alliances, but rather showing oneself present and combative on some identity issues, such as justice, health care and the tax authorities. “Large field does not mean anything – Bersani points out – an alternative must be created. As the right-wing have marked their identity”, the Democratic Party wants “to show the people of the centre-left, who have not disappeared but only stumbled, that on two or three themes such as justice, health and taxation are you present? Do we want to be seen together on a stage not to talk about alliances but about problems that interest people?”.

Then, regarding the internal turmoil of the Democratic Party and the accusations of currents a Schlein for the disastrous electoral result, Bersani underlines: “After ten years of misadventures of the Democratic Party, picking on someone who has been there for two months with contemptuous and ungenerous judgments is in my opinion out of this world”. And he adds: “Schlein risks as he risks when he doesn’t take enough initiative. He needs to have an in-depth political discussion both within the party and with the other oppositions to bring them to the bulk of the problems people have today, from inflation to the tax Three or four things and organizing the party on these, campaigning and trying to build something visible around it with the opposition”.