For Bonaccini (wanted by 1 out of 3 Pd electors) it will not be easy to unseat the currents

Fresh from self-nomination for the party secretariat, Stefano Bonaccini he also has the polls on his side. Who, also thanks to a still poorly defined picture, see him as the most likely next leader of the Democratic Party. The photograph was taken by Ilvo Diamanti in Repubblica: according to the survey conducted by the Demos institute, 32 percent of dem voters would like the president of Emilia-Romagna to be the next secretary. A growing figure (by 6 points) even if only compared to a month ago. Behind him, however, there are only candidates unofficial: to say, the former vice president of Bonaccini in the region Elly Schlein, is credited with 8 percent of the vote, but has not yet lifted the reservation on the future. You have confessed to some parliamentarians that you are thinking about it, but many of your moves also come from considerations and any pressures that may come to you from the so-called currents.

Yep, currents. In announcing the step forward, Bonaccini used some of the most ironic words in the recent history of the Democratic Party. “I will not ask any current to support me nor will I want the support of any current. We can no longer afford to select the ruling classes through the currents, that’s enough“, he said, demonstrating that he is not afraid of counter-moves from his opponents. Who for now are studying the reaction remaining silent, in a cone of shadow. Local administrators such as the mayor of Bergamo have spoken out in favor of the governor George Gorithe president of Tuscany Eugene Gianian endorsement could soon reach him from the mayor of Pesaro Matthew Ricci, who has long cultivated ambitions as a secretary and who, however, will now in all probability pull himself out of the race. The support of the reformist base, which includes former defense minister Lorenzo Guerini, Alessandro Alfieri and Luca Lotti among others, is taken for granted. This despite the fact that Bonaccini, considered at the time by the Renzi secretariat to be very close to the former prime minister, has never adhered to the internal acronym of the dem.

The fact is that the ostracism towards current accountism will have to coexist with the historical organization that the dem have given themselves. Which, inevitably, will have a weight in the setting up of the next congress. As they had anticipated in a letter to the Foglio, the dem parliamentarians Lia Quartapelle And Marianna Madia they made an accusation against the structure of currents, proposing its abolition. But in the meeting convened last Saturday to approve the amendments to the statute, the agenda of the two deputies was not put to the vote. Although the outgoing secretary Enrico Letta has taken the effort to “make a proposal on the congress regulations”.

In the background remain the wait-and-see attitudes of a part of the Pd still undecided (and indecipherable) on what to do. So while Dario Franceschini and all the other members of AreaDem are inclined to support Elly Schlein, the so-called left of the party, the one that goes from Goffredo Bettini to Andrea Orlando, passing through the former secretary Nicola Zingaretti, after the annoyance for the acceleration on the congress times He still ponders whether to bet on his own candidate or bet his chips on the major contenders right now. Some considerations certainly deserve the positioning of Letta himself, who for reasons of expediency is keen to appear as neutral as possible. But there is no doubt that, after having included her in the lists and having welcomed her into the path of the democratic Agora, he would not see a bad handover with Schlein at all. While it is not yet clear if and how, in view of the primary on February 19, Speranza and his companions will be in the match.

In any case, a meeting of local administrators organized by the mayor of Florence is scheduled for November 27th Dario Nardella. There it will be better understood if the mayor of Tuscany will feel like trying, after months of rumors, to be in the game. But there is the concrete possibility that in the end the convention will end up being a kind of sprint for Bonaccini. With the risk that someone will consider it as an investiture by yet another current.