The Democratic Party in alarm: doubts about Schlein even among AreaDem loyalists

Yes, it’s true, the Molise defeat in the home of the dem was considered very probable. But what caught the leaders of the Democratic Party totally unprepared was the total collapse of the Five Stars. Al Nazareno were convinced that going to the elections with one of their candidates, moreover mayor of Campobasso, the M5s would suffer a decline compared to the previous regional ones (31 percent) and even compared to the political ones (24 percent) but that they would fall no one in the Democratic Party imagined it. And this time Elly Schlein can’t say she wasn’t there, because the agreements with the Five Stars in Molise have been perfected under her management. Of course, someone had warned her that running for mayor of a municipality where the Democratic Party was in opposition was perhaps not a wise choice. But the secretary was (and is) convinced that the agreement with the M5s must necessarily be made in view of the political elections in which the dream of the dem secretary is to run for Palazzo Chigi.

Now, after the Molise patatraca, it cannot be said that Elly Schlein has been placed in the dock. There won’t be an explicit indictment against her, if only because the leader of the Democratic Party has no intention of convening another direction, better to bring together the secretariat where she has a clear majority and where internal opponents are not represented by the ‘hard and pure wing of the dem minority. But the fact remains that by now even those who supported her or whoever had decided to give her credit and collaborate now think that perhaps being a dem secretary is not a suitable job for Schlein. Even AreaDem loyalists (Dario Franceschini’s current) are alarmed and are beginning to fear for the fate of the party. But rejecting the secretary one year before the European elections is out of the question. Therefore the minority of Lorenzo Guerini, which is the fiercest, now tip your toes with Stefano Bonacciniaccused of being too soft towards the leader, and asks the president of the Emilia-Romagna region to make his voice heard “because we certainly cannot go on like this”.

Meanwhile, the security cultivated in the Nazarene between the secretary and her loyalists to take revenge in the European elections (“If we play our cards right we can even overcome the Brothers of Italy who in a year will be worn down by government experience and will no longer be in the moon of honey with the voters”, one even hears said in the magic tortellini) has not been affected even by this umpteenth defeat. All the other dem executives are a little less sure of these predictions. We console ourselves with the fact that, given the trend of the M5s, the Pd will also be the first opposition party in the European round, whatever its result. Sure, a little bit for a party that aspires to compete with Giorgia Meloni.

In the panicked Five Stars, however, there are those who think they can’t get Giuseppe Conte to the Europeans. Among the parliamentarians and the executive groups, the former prime minister still has a firm majority, but that is not necessarily enough. Beppe Grillo thinks of Virginia Raggi. A “battle” solution that according to the Genoese comedian could bring new life to the movement.

They tell that Brazilian President Lula was somewhat surprised by the reception given to him by Elly Schlein. Very affectionate, for heaven’s sake, but it seems that Lula did not like the sneakers with which the dem secretary presented herself at an official meeting. In Montecitorio there are rumors that Clare Braga she felt overwhelmed by Pepe Provenzano on the Santanchè case. The foreign affairs manager dem in fact burned the parent company of the Democratic Party in the Chamber on time, asking for the resignation of the Minister of Tourism.