The “maximalist” Democratic Party loses another piece. Enrico Borghi moves to Italia viva

“Too extremist”, says Senator Borghi. Talking about diaspora is perhaps still exaggerated. But in the meantime, after Beppe Fioroni and Andrea Marcucci, the Democratic Party is losing another piece, this time heavier. Matteo Renzi immediately hailed it as “a choice that represents a hymn to politics”. The choice is that of Enrico Borghi, once a Lettian (very Lettian), who today leaves the Democratic Party and enters Italy alive. “Schlein’s first choices represent a genetic mutation: from a reformist party to a left-wing maximalist party”: Too extremist positions, irreconcilable for the now ex dem, who had supported Stefano Bonaccini in the primary race.

He waited for the first moves, looking for some answers. But all the signs that arrived in the first two months led him to think that the Nazarene was no longer her home. The new democratic course risks, according to the reading that Borghi entrusts to Republic, to open up prairies to the right. And instead, “we must prevent Giorgia Meloni’s project to launch a takeover bid on Italian moderates from going through“. He complains about Schlein’s silence with respect to “the issues of security and defence, of Catholics and democrats, of a need for a synthesis”. And “in politics, silences count more than spoken words”.

Those pronounced by Schlein for now have focused on other themes: “i.e. on the rented uterus” with respect to which the secretary said she was in favor. But, Borghi suggests, without it having been an internal party debate. “A path of cultural homologation, dictated by external powers, which speaks of the weak and then facilitates the exploitation of the weakest. A very strong push to speak of rights detached from duties”, is the attack on the leader who “supports the narration of an anti-capitalist and pauperistic policy”, which hasn’t decided whether to stay with democracies or with autocracies?.

And then the most natural landing place for Borghi’s reformism could only be Italy alive, who knows in an attempt to revive that derailed Third Pole project. An area where another former Democrat such as Andrew Marcucci who walked away citing roughly the same reasons. While the other outcast, the former minister and founder of the dem Beppe Fioroni, has not yet clarified the new placement, limiting his commitment for the moment “to rebuild a network of discussions and contacts with the whole moderate, Catholic and reformer”.

We’ll see, meanwhile Borghi will remain vice president of Copasir: “If I had been president I would have resigned”. And instead that office is the prerogative of the opposition, a condition which, says the senator, has not changed. Renzi will be happy, the Nazarene a little less. Because if it is true that the leadership of the Parliamentary Security Committee is entrusted to the dem Lorenzo Guerini, so is the fact that in the risk of appointments, the Democratic Party loses a beat.

In any case, Borghi wanted to clarify that his is a personal initiative. “I do not cause divisions and I do not proselytise”, explained the Security manager of Enrico Letta’s previous secretariat, to whom behind the scenes assign the direction behind the birth of a new current – the so-called neo-ulivisti – precisely in support of Schlein. That is, the faithful Latvians of the past, then Bonacciniani, now repositioned. Among them Anna Ascani and Marco Meloni, to name the best known. And also, until yesterday, Enrico Borghi. Obviously, he wasn’t exactly convinced of this change of pace.