Lady Rousseau offers the Casaleggio platform to the Democratic Party: “If Letta wants help, we are here”

“If Letta wants help for the primaries, she can call us, we are available”. Enrica Sabatini, Lady Rousseau companion of Davide Casaleggio, and today with him founder of Camelot, the new digital participation platform heir to the grillina Rousseau, admits that the incandescent debate within the Democratic Party on the hypothesis of using online voting for the primaries, a knot that the management dem will have to dissolve today, not the passion. “Certainly digital voting has the advantage of broadening the number of voters, today in Estonia, paradoxically, older people who have more difficulty getting out use it more, but I think the Democratic Party is wrong, they should think bigger”. That is? “They think of digital voting as a translation of physical voting by other means: instead of going to the gazebos you choose on one site, but so digital voting becomes just a way to favor the candidate who thus thinks of broadening the audience of his voters more”, he says without ever mentioning the candidate for the secretariat pushing for this solution, Elly Schlein. “And instead – continues the now Lady Camelot – digital voting serves to open up a new world, with the aim of creating a community that meets through digital tools, but it is the final moment of that meeting. We, if the Democratic Party or other organizations are interested, with Camelot offer more: we provide a hybrid, physical and digital participation platform, in addition to the long experience of good practices and the ability to overcome the obstacles that we have built over the years ” . And yet the dem are interested in the question of the vote. “I repeat, fine, but it is a short-sighted view: that is only a micro aspect, the final one, instead they should discuss how to build participation paths that use digital voting as a means of enriching the debate of their community. The new secretary should ask himself how to build a path over the next 10 years to integrate the internal debate with digital, hybridize it, these integrated mechanisms give you the best result, allow me to broaden your base, the future is hybridization. Using the vote sporadically to increase the number of voters is fine, but it is certainly not a step into the future”. And yet Letta also tried the method of online meetings with the democratic Agora, tried to “open” the Democratic Party with digital technology. Sabatini is not convinced. “I don’t have the data from Letta’s democratic Agoras, but I can say one thing”. Sure, what? “Today in Italy there is no longer a political force that interprets Gianroberto’s idea which was not to use technology, but was to build a community using a digital architecture. The M5s was born thanks to that intuition with the online meet-ups that generated a wave that then filled the squares with tens of thousands of people up to the government of the country, but now it is a top-down party where political candidates are chosen from above, the same with regard to the governor candidates in the regional elections in Sicily, Lazio and Lombardy. Nobody interprets this possibility anymore, that space will be filled by someone who will be able to do it”. All in all warned. “Since we are talking about the Democratic Party which is debating today on the issue of online voting, I invite them to finally look at the contemporary, but to do it seriously, we have been working on these things for 20 years, perhaps even after the pandemic they are starting to realize of the opportunities and the need to take this step forward”.