Vincenzo De Luca against Schlein: “There is nothing more vulgar than radical-chic without chic”

He makes it a question of aesthetic taste, of fashion. Perhaps of armocromia. “In politics, as in life, there is nothing more vulgar than radical-chic without chic”: in the aftermath of the downgrading of his son Piero – no longer vice president of the Pd deputies – Vincenzo De Luca entrusts his jab to Facebook. He does not directly mention the secretary, but the reference to Elly Schlein is clear, to the choice to replace the MP from Campania with Paolo Ciani in the role of deputy group leader.

A decision that many have interpreted as an effect of the “fight against caciques” that the new dem leader wants to carry on. Or as “a surname trial”, as they defined it instead by the minority of the party, or even “the search for a political scalp”, to put it in the words of theformer minister Lorenzo Guerini, leader of the current reformist Base,

In fact, the question also seems to concern De Luca senior, who supported Stefano Bonaccini in Congress and has never expressed great sympathy for Schlein. But above all he would like the go-ahead for a third term as president of the Campania region – while the local party has been a police station – clashing, however, with the no from the secretary.

“It is clear to everyone that the logics that have prevailed in this affair, as far as I’m concerned, were not based on political dynamics, nor on skills, nor on the contribution to parliamentary work, but are affected by waste still not disposed of from the last primaries . A sort of transversal revenge has taken place that does no honor“, said his son Piero yesterday, weakened, after Schlein’s coup, to the role of secretary of the dem group in Montecitorio.