Bologna calls Rome, proposal saves Pd: Bonaccini – Schlein ticket
ROME – Bonaccini and Schlein at the ticket office. From Bologna with fury. Adopt the government formula of the now almost the only Italian red region to regenerate the Democratic Party in crisis. The suggestion takes hold as the debate on the congress widens in the party. “It is my personal wish”, explains Andrea De Maria, deputy Pd, from the early hours sided with Bonaccini as candidate Secretary. “Elly Schlein would be perfect for a ticket. As has already been done in the Emilia-Romagna Region. A way to truly renew oneself from our land to a new season of relaunch and renewal of the PD and the Center-Left ”.
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A premise: with the Democratic Party fresh from defeat and always in a precarious balance, forcing on one side and the other risk being lethal. Stefano Bonaccini attracts the area of the reformists, starting with the former Renzians. The left sees in Elly Schlein the anti-Meloni. But both of them fear that in the event of the opponent’s victory, the conditions for remaining in the party will no longer exist. Too much on the right that of Bonaccini, for the left. Schlein’s is too leftist for the reformists. They are the famous ‘crossed vetoes’, a specialty of the Democratic Party, which usually resolves them with the ancient method of compromise.
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In this case, however, the formula shouldn’t have the bitter taste of ‘everything changes because nothing changes’, another dish dem. Bonaccini and Schlein are two managers who do not belong to the ranks of the former leaders of Margherita and DS (Bonacci was, but in the second row), above all and they are a proven government couple in a region considered an example of good administration.
If the proposal catches on, it should also have the advantage of not flattening either of the two candidates on the traditional souls of the party. Bonaccini and Schlein weakened historians by a fight to the last vote between the two components.
The only real counter-indication, however, would consist in leaving the administrative top of the Emilia Romagna region ‘uncovered’, on the basis of a voluntary commitment, in a political party, of the number one and number two of the local government. A sacrifice that the Emilian ‘reds’ might not like.
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