Elly Schlein’s tribute to Matteotti. Roses, selfies and the challenge to the government – Corriere.it

A bit of a tour, though the secretary doesn’t travel on the bus with the others but on a faster sedan, and a little team buildingwith motivational meeting and group photo: Elly Schlein held hers first secretariat in Rianoat the gates of Rome.

The first stage is the homage, in the already rather hot climate close to 25 April, to the stele dedicated to Giacomo Matteotti in via Flaminia, which frames the point in the wood where it was found the deputy’s body
socialist killed by the fascists in 1924. The mayor is thrilled Luca Abruzzetti. But his unexpected moment of popularity forces him to clarify why his junta also includes a member of Brothers of Italy, with some embarrassment for the secretary staff. Second stage — always with the minibus in tow, and with the members of the secretariat joking about the idea of ​​singing “Hello beautiful” on board – at the Arci «La Rosta» club, usually animated by the elderly who alternate sessions of trump and ballroom dancing: yesterday everyone lined up to support the new secretary, make (slight) findings and take a selfie.

The meeting of the dem executive reiterates its intention to be “a problem for the government” and to “propose a different idea of ​​the country”, as Schlein says. Some detail, the method”as noted by those listening to the secretary, emerges behind closed doors. The secretariat will have to be politicalalmost a shadow government and with a strong interlocution with the Chambers, and united: every sortie is measured “with respect for internal sensitivities”, that of Catholics on rights, for example.

Schlein calls at mobilization to defend “the right to housing”, for the first time the subject of a specific delegation. An action to build social housing and make up for the zeroing of the rental fund, to be implemented “in synergy with the mayors”. The signal to the administrators is explicit: «Sala and Nardella have already expressed themselves, we will work with them».

Yesterday the PD mayors launched another battle: the one in ballot defensewhich Minister Calderoli announced to Courier want to delete. “We say no to the attempt to overturn the electoral law of the cities,” argues Giorgio Gori. «It would be a new filth», is the alarm of Matthew Ricci And Dario Nardella. “So the dialogue on reforms skips,” warns Alessandro Alfieri, who is responsible for the Pd on the subject of reforms. Another generational signal emerges from the secretariat, in line with Schlein’s story: the representatives of the Young Democrats have been participating in the works since yesterday.

In front of the monument to Matteotti, first, and outside the Arci club, then, many exponents of the Anpi and many former PCIs. Like Clara Porcaro who takes care of the “Bella ciao” roses around the stele. Or the eighty-year-old secretary of the Capena club, Elvira Tomassetti. “I was displaced to Riano from Rome after the bombing of San Lorenzo, I was only 33 days old – she says -. I told the secretary: we must do more against war».