Bonaccini furious for Giarrusso, Orlando disappointed by Provenzano

The president of the Emilia-Romagna region is still the favorite in the secretariat of the Democratic Party, but Schlein is recovering consensus. Meanwhile, the big parties are starting to criticize and view the so-called generational renewal with suspicion

The so-called generational pact of forty-year-olds or thereabouts to appropriate the top management of Democratic party and undermining the old bosses of the currents has infuriated some big names in the Democratic Party. Not Dario Franceschini, who in any case does not intend to play in the next few matches in the front row and on the other hand has placed some of him with Elly Schlein. Nor Lorenzo Guerini, who managed to put one of his own in charge of the territorial organization of Stefano Bonaccini’s motion: Senator Alessandro Alfieri. Those most displaced are Nicola Zingaretti and Andrea Orlando. Both side with Schlein, albeit with due caution, but both the former president of the Lazio Region and the former Minister of Labor have seen their respective currents fray. “Their” young people flocked to the candidate for the secretariat well before their respective bosses and have now freed themselves. This is the case, for example, of Marco Furfaro, who has become coordinator of the Schlein motion and who has a very strong relationship with the former vice president of Emilia Romagna that is independent of Zingaretti and which has been built up over the years. As far as Orlando is concerned, the biggest “whammy” was that of Peppe Provenzano. Enrico Letta’s deputy secretary had already freed himself from the former Minister of Labor after which when it was understood that Schlein would take her field he sided with her without ifs and without her but, on the contrary, Orlando. Who now chews bitterly and criticizes the so-called generational renewal: “For this congress – says the dem deputy – the traditional path of competition on leadership which inevitably puts the renewal of the management team at the center and not of ideas. I must say that this path is having a rather comical outcome because I have never seen the proposal for a renewal of the management groups where those who theorize it are older than those who will have to be replaced”.