New York’s lesson for Elly

The book “Viva New York” by Gianluca Galletto (ed.Paesi) is presented, with a preface by the former mayor of the Big Apple Bill de Biasio, the pd secretary Elly Schlein, the author and journalists Giovanna Pancheri and Gianni Riotta. What can New York (and De Blasio’s experience) teach newly elected Elly, moreover the day after the case for which she was internally impeached by large swathes of the party? And that is after the replacement of the dem deputy group leader in the Chamber Piero De Luca with Paolo Ciani, coming from Demos and from the anti-arms line on Ukraine?

Schlein would not like to talk about it when asked if the Ciani line could become that of the Democratic Party (“the Democratic Party line does not change”, says the secretary). That she would like to talk to De Blasio about “high things”, from the minimum wage to precariousness and beyond, especially since he, the former mayor, does not want to give her advice on currents and internal disagreements within the left, because she doesn’t need it for him . And so let’s talk about Pnrr, yes, but focusing on education, nursery schools, ecological transition, housing emergency. He, Bill, goes over choices and policies. Yes to individuals, but only under certain conditions, is the mantra. Applicable? Maybe.

Elly thinks about the future, she says (she will go around the country to listen and also abroad to discuss), but without obsession “for the daily hashtag”. What today everyone refers from one phone to another precisely on the Ciani case. Luckily there is New York and its lesson, in times of Pnrr (Schlein would like to apply the theme of “our conditions” of which De Blasio speaks, but who knows).

Meanwhile, Nicola Zingaretti and the group leaders Chiara Braga and Andrea Boccia parade with Elly. “She already knows”, says De Blasio, alluding to the management of internal struggles on the left. Schlein smiles, in vermilion color matching like the jacket.

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• Marianna Rizzini

• Marianna Rizzini was born and raised in Rome, between the Visconti high school and the La Sapienza University, perhaps absorbing the tics of both environments, but more of the Visconti than of the Sapienza. Luckily they sent it to Milan in time, even if she then went back. He has been working at Il Foglio since the early years of the Millennium and mostly writes portraits of political figures or articles on left-wing disasters, Five Stars and web populists, but the page you don’t expect can happen (strange individuals, perfect strangers, improbable stories, robots , movies, cartoons). She was born into a crazy family, but in hindsight not even that much. She lives in Trastevere, she is Tea’s mother, she likes to go out, she is not an ace chef.