Schlein fever, smiles and euphoria. Her Committee is already sold out

The dream of the turnaround (and the relative exultation) take shape shortly after 8:30, while waiting for Elly Schlein to arrive at Spazio Diamante, in via Prenestina, not far from Pigneto, a location in the style of “gentrified areas” like the one where he had launched his candidacy for Monk, at Portonaccio. And while the data reaches the cell phone of the deputy Alessandro Zan, the one who takes care of the rights for Schlein, also given the recent history of the bill that bears his name, it becomes clear that the party could be here, and not in Emilia- Romagna: “We are ahead in Padua, we are ahead in Venice, we are ahead in Lombardy”, says Zan. Marco Furfaro, deputy and coordinator of the Schlein motion, smiles. Meanwhile, outside and just beyond the door where the committee meets while other data flows in, the former minister Francesco Boccia, who held the reins of the motion on the territories, and the deputies and key women of the motion Michela De Biase and Chiara are smiling Braga. For two hours we have been thinking about the possible overtaking (“even if he loses, he wins”), jokes a supporter who arrives in the rain with his family to settle in the theater from where the count is followed. Shortly before 9, Schlein arrives, the candidate who from the smile on her face as she embraces her arms must have understood that, as the supporters say jokingly but not so much, “we express cautious optimism”. But applause and not shy shouts of joy come from the committee room. The fact that the former governor of Lazio and former PD secretary Nicola Zingaretti arrives, then, makes the exegetes of PD movements say: “If he moves…”. At 21.50 “14 regions” are taken for granted, and the smiles increase. At 10:00 pm, the voice of hope comes from the Committee room …

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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.