“Dissolve the Democratic Party? Are we kidding? Let’s start again from the streets”. Talk the dem base

What to do with the Democratic party after the defeat of last September 25? We went to the Pd del Pigneto club, in the 5th town hall, in Rome, to assist to the analysis of the vote of the base. Over three hours of discussion, confrontation and complaints have ignited the spirits of the militants. Many criticisms of the “Rosatellum”, the electoral system used in this latest electoral round. “We made this electoral system, but we have not changed it in recent years, we have not committed ourselves to a proportional electoral system. Because in this way the party secretaries could elect the deputies they wanted”, says Mauro Caliste. Pd president of the V municipality of Rome.

There are those who are disappointed with the electoral campaign carried out by the Democratic Party. “I have done many, but the latter surprised me for the aggressiveness that was towards us: a sense of profound antipathy towards us who represented the democratic party” says a militant. On the hypothesis of dissolving the party, advocated among others by Rosy Bindi, the basis is contrary. “Are we kidding?”, says a militant who adds: “My story is in here, we can change as I changed at the time of Occhetto, it was a strong change, but I do not give up my story”.

Where does the Democratic Party have to start again to turn the page after this defeat? “From the streets, from the real problems of the people. They have to get off the palace and go through the streets and squares“, says another militant. And on the democratic danger highlighted many times by the secretary Enrico Letta even during the closing of the electoral campaign in Rome, a militant asks the assembly a question:” But if there is this democratic danger, do the demonstration with the chairs in Piazza del Popolo? But if there is a danger, do a national demonstration, right? Instead they gave up early. “