Unable to participate in the Senate, of which she is not a member because she is a deputy in Montecitorio, the PD secretary Elly Schlein wanted to contribute to the assault on Giorgia Meloni’s government with an interview to the always hospitable, if not familiar, Corriere della Sera. It placed her on the front page with the accusation against the premier of having “shut herself in the palace” after the referendum defeat on the judiciary reform, while pretending to open up to the opposition with an electoral reform, for example, unacceptable because it only serves another victory for the center-right, after the one more than three years ago. “Shut in the palace,” I repeat, like in the “gas bubble” preferred as an image by other opponents.
However, everyone has their own prison in this somewhat improvised, or muscular as Claudio Velardo calls it in Il Riformista, version of Italian political bipolarism. Even Schlein, with the PD and what will remain of it losing pieces from time to time, generally of a moderate nature, is locked in the broad front “stubbornly” pursued with the decisive participation of Giuseppe Conte. He would also like to lead it by snatching the candidacy for Palazzo Chigi in the primaries. In fact, upon his return, having already been there with two governments and as many opposing majorities, earning from the admired Marco Travaglio the second place in the national, monarchical and republican ranking, after another Conte: Camillo Benso di Cavour.
As the guardian of the ambitions of the Conte with a capital C, Travaglio today attacked and mocked Schlein herself for clinging, in her race to Palazzo Chigi, to political ghosts, by now, like former American president Barack Obama, whom she went to revere at an international gathering of democrats, progressives, and others in Canada. An Obama who, in the eight years spent with two terms in the White House – the director of Il Fatto Quotidiano contested him – managed to abuse the Nobel Prize imprudently awarded to him by opening and conducting more wars than Trump. Our Conte, on the other hand, opened and led only two bloodless ones: one, failed, against poverty, whose disappearance was announced from the balcony of Palazzo Chigi by a Luigi Di Maio infatuated with the citizen’s income, and the other, the one won, against financial stability. Which Meloni instead boasts of having restored already in her not yet concluded term at the head of the government, also soon to hold the record for duration.
