The Campania dossier on Schlein’s table: alliances and De Luca’s third term

“This time it’s different,” they swear. Until proven otherwise you have to believe it if nothing else. What is certain is that, compared to the past, not only the new secretary has set up a new deal, but those who supported it in Campania have always been the alternative to De Luca. Except in one case, that of Francesco Boccia, former dem regional commissioner, who as a bridge between the party and Deluch’s lines has now become public enemy number one. On the other hand, the letters of the regional councilors and exes in which they asked for his head were tied to his finger. Then there’s Marco Sarracino, by now very fast towards the national party of which he should be the organization manager and who has always been light years away from De Luca and the Deluchians.

In short, the variable dem geography will once again create shocks and local repercussions. In the immediate future it will be necessary to understand how the game of the regional and Neapolitan secretariats will be resolved. If, in practice, the Bonaccinian-Deluchians Rosetta D’Amelio and Peppe Annunziata remain the only candidates or some loophole will be found to defenestrate them. Then there is the third mandate node. Which is closely related to alliances. If Vincenzo De Luca and the regional Pd were to go ahead with the project to amend the electoral law, as in Veneto, the third term highway would automatically open in Campania too (it is as if the abacus were reset and the mandates started again). On the other hand, not later than last January from Fabio Fazio, De Luca reiterated: «On this I am on the line Zaia who is a candidate for the third term, has been exercising the third mandate in the general peace for two years, no one has had anything to laugh at”. For the president, raising the issue is “idiocy” and always has been. It is not for Schlein, who plays a large part of his electoral mandate on renewal. And he said it clearly. As Sandro Ruotolo repeated to this newspaper and Roberto Fico al Everyday occurrence. The former Speaker of the Chamber is the third key man in Campania. He has very close relations with Sarracino, with whom he tested the laboratory first in Giugliano and then in Naples. Both want the leap to the Region. It is obvious that the alliance exists if De Luca is not there, otherwise the road is not viable. So the theme is political, dislikes and likes have nothing to do with it. But Schlein will find a very tough nut ahead, who has been chewing politics for decades.