From article 18 to civil rights, the reason for Bonaccini’s all-left turn
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«Reintroduce Article 18? Absolutely yes, taking it off was a mistake ». Stefano Bonaccini had never arrived at that much. Yes, the governor of Emilia Romagna and candidate in pole position for the secretariat of the Democratic Party had already said that we need to go beyond the Jobs act, that of the various reforms of the Renzian era, it is the one that in his opinion worked the least as it did not solve or mitigate the phenomenon of precariousness. But he had never said that it is necessary to reintroduce the reinstatement provided for by article 18, a totem of the left (not only of the Democratic Party). Rather, it was and is Bonaccini’s proposal, it is necessary to act on the reduction of the tax wedge to make precarious work less convenient than stable work.
The message to Bonaccini’s subscribers: I am the real left
What happened? Keep an eye on the dates: this weekend the actual congress begins (finally, one should say, after months of twisting and turns on the “constituent” path) which will end on February 26 with the traditional primaries open to voters. And it begins with the voting of the congressional motions in the circles, where only the members (now reduced to 150 thousand, half of four years ago) will be able to vote: from this “selection” the first two who will compete in the primaries will emerge. Well, Bonaccini in these hours speaks first of all to them, to the members traditionally more to the left of the voters. And the message is clear: there is no need to vote for Elly Schlein, I too am a leftist, in fact I am the real leftist. Hence, too, the visit to the gates of Mirafiori and the insistence on the need to introduce a legal minimum wage, supported by everyone in the party. Hence, finally, the length and centrality of two chapters of Bonaccini’s motion: the one on civil rights (13 pages) and the one on climate and ecological transition (7 pages, complete with an initial quote from Naomi Klein): i.e. the main themes of Schlein’s proposal.
The need to rinse the clothes of “Renzism”
To return to the reviled Jobs act, Elly Schlein has made the attack on the so-called “Renzism” one of the main themes of her campaign (“from Renzi wicked reforms that have divided the country and destroyed the Democratic Party”). And in the meantime, his supporters, relying on Bonaccini’s political friendship with the former secretary and prime minister, did their utmost to paint Bonaccini as Renzi’s fifth column in the Democratic Party. It is clear that washing the clothes of “Renzism” in the great river of leftist identity is for Bonaccini the ritual to be performed to capture the votes of the anti-Renzians who do not fully trust the outsider Schlein.
Schlein focuses on female and young votes, unknown turnout
The young ex movementist leader of Occupy Pd focuses heavily on the female and youth vote and also focuses, for the open primaries, on the vote of those who have never gone to the gazebos. But, as we know, the youth vote is not the hard core of the Democratic Party, on the contrary very popular among the over 50s. On paper, Bonaccini has nothing to fear. But in times of discouragement over the historic defeat of September 25 and in times of general disaffection with politics – this is the question Bonaccini’s supporters are asking – how many of the traditional voters of the dem primaries will return to the gazebos despite everything?
Winning is not enough: Bonaccini must win well
In any case, no one, not even among Schlien’s supporters, really thinks that the predictions can be overturned. Rather the quantum is at stake: a narrow victory for Bonaccini in a party very divided on everything – from alliances (M5s or Third Pole?) to fiscal and labor policies up to the position on the war in Ukraine (what peace? send more weapons? ) – would condemn its leadership to paralysis from the outset. Not only winning, but winning with a great gap is a necessary condition for the governor of Emilia Romagna to really change the “direction” of the party as Renzi himself proposed in his time (and we know how it ended). In short, the leadership is well worth a Jobs act, which in the meantime has been greatly reduced in its scope by the sentences of the Constitutional Court. “On the other hand, we have to win the Democratic Party congress, not the elections,” says a collaborator of the “red” governor.
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