The Democratic Party in Naples to say no to the reform of differentiated autonomy, but De Luca and his men aren’t there

United against differentiated autonomy. Even if the Democratic Party, at least here in Campania, is not really united. Elly Schlein doesn’t say a word about Vincenzo De Luca’s absence at the event organized by the Democratic Party in Naples, against the reform of differentiated autonomy signed by Calderoli. The president of the Region did not come, his son Piero (Dem deputy) either, like most of the regional councilors and provincial secretaries. Signatories of a critical document compared to the long times of the commissioner of the regional party, with the request to speed up the times of the congress. Of all this, in the courtyard of the Quartieri Spagnoli Foundation, on fire from the sun, there is no mention.

The heart of these two days must remain the contrast to a reform “carried out with the shoulder, which will increase inequalities and divide the country”, says the secretary in her closing speech of these two days of debates and political denunciation. And she attacks Meloni, for “the horrid barter with the League and the paradox of the nationalists of the Brothers of Italy who bring to fruition Salvini’s never dormant secessionist dreams”. She then takes it out on the center-right regional presidents, who “make their partisan political interests prevail over that of their territories, shame on you”. But Schlein never misses an opportunity to insist on the minimum wage proposal, which the majority wants to bury, and on the cancelled basic income: “They hide the poor, they don’t want to see them”.

Then, resisting under the sun, he comes to speak of the fight against the mafia, of how “irresponsible it is to question the crime of external competition in a mafia association”, and the audience of the Quartieri Spagnoli stands up to applaud. At the end of the courtyard, Antonio Misiani also applauds, the commissioner chosen by the leader to try to put the party in order in Campania, one of those who De Luca would like to see disappear as soon as possible. “We have started a process, the goal is the congress, but respect and collaboration are needed,” warns Misiani. Then he admits that relations with the president from Campania are at the very least complicated: “We are at the point where either this rift is recomposed in a short time, or it is broken completely”. According to the Pd executives who arrived in Naples, the second option always seems more concrete than the first.