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The collapse of the Italian left provokes the resignation of Enrico Letta


The left-wing bloc, in particular the Democratic Party, is the big loser in the Italian elections. The leftist forces appeared divided, seeing themselves harmed by an electoral law that rewards coalitions. But in addition, their mistakes have been many and the electorate has punished them. The right-wing bloc obtained 44% of the parliament and very distant, at 18 points, was the left-wing coalition (26%), led by the Democratic Party, led by Enrico Letta. In a gesture that honors him, rare in Italian politics, he acknowledged that he got a bad result of 19%. The PD hoped to at least exceed 20%.

The protagonists of the failure of the left have blamed each other for the failure and for facilitating the arrival of Meloni to the Government. Letta, who will lead the PD until the next congress, scheduled for March, when a new secretary is elected, appeared alone at the press conference, an image that spoke for itself of the abandonment in which the party leader has seen After the congress will leave. “It’s a sad day, hard days await us,” she acknowledged, assuring that “the Democratic Party will make an uncompromising opposition. The Italians have chosen, they have made a clear and clear choice, they have chosen the right”, said Letta.

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The failure of the PD is the reflection of the collapse of a left that has been abandoned by its traditional voters, including workers and the unemployed. Even the left-wing union, the General Confederation of Workers (CGIL), the most important in the country, has turned its back on him, the center that he always used as a transmission mail. In these elections, the CGIL admitted that many of its members have gone to the right and for the first time it did not recommend voting for the left, but instead allowed freedom to vote. For many years, the PD has become “bourgeois” and divided in internal currents, and with endless struggles between the various candidates for the general secretariat. A simple fact reflects this endless division and struggle: in 15 years there have been nine general secretaries. Each lasts an average of a year and a half.

That is the time that Enrico Letta has also been. His predecessor, Nicola Zingaretti, left the management slamming the door. The PD secretaries change every two for three, but the party seems stagnant, unable to print a regeneration movement. At the beginning of the electoral campaign, when the political scientist and professor of Political Science at the Luiss University in Rome was asked about the electoral prospects of the PD and its leader Letta, his judgment was pessimistic: «The PD is an old party . Letta was called in to pacify him, after his predecessor had said that he was ashamed of the match. What propulsive force can it have under those conditions?

The comedian Grillo was the most effective representative of populism against the system since he founded the 5 Star Movement, in 2009. In the electoral campaigns he told the leaders of the M5E that they should speak to the belly and not to the head of those attending the their mythical In the 2018 elections, the Movement reached almost 33% with the promise that it would eliminate poverty and end the so-called political caste. It was the first game in the country. But it lacked a ruling class and very soon became just another party in the establishment, which it had promised to destroy. Its president, Giuseppe Conte, who describes himself as “the people’s lawyer”, seeing that the party was in free fall, even below 10%, brought down the government of Mario Draghi, whom he never forgave for being his substitute in February of 2021. Transformed into a tribune of the people, he has toured the poor South of Italy as if he were the Italian Mélenchon, defending the unemployment subsidy, which Giorgia Meloni promises to abolish, and explaining that his government approved the “110% super bonus, to that all citizens restructure their houses free-of-charge».


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