Giuseppe Conte leads Elly Schlein in the polls and dictates the line: open clash between M5S and Pd over Ukraine, rearmament and coalition leadership.
Let’s face it: the clutch bag looks good on everything, even on the “peaceful revolution”. Word of Giuseppe Conte who, forgetting that he defended the interests of financial multinationals when he was in the Alpa studio, identifies «in having entrusted itself to the god of the market, to unbridled neoliberalism», the fatal fault of the left that he wants to amend. Given that it was September 20th, the date of the taking of Porta Pia, the baptism of a united Italy, and that none of the politicians at the rally yesterday remembered it, at least this neo-left could have thought about it.
But Conte aims to lead the wide field and has to deal with Elly Schleinwhich yesterday badly received the irony of Giorgia Meloniwho challenges her to say at least “one true thing to challenge me” and is stunned by a poll that gives the head of the Five Star Movement a 16-point advantage over her in any primaries.
The attack on Nova and the final farewell to one is worth one
Conte therefore feels “forced to be authentically radical”. He must not have heard the opinion of his “father-in-law”, Cesare Paladino, who is in negotiations with Paolo Zampolli, the man of Donald Trump in Italy, to sell him the Grand Hotel Plaza in Rome, apparently debt-ridden. Closing Novathe gathering of the pentastellati, Giuseppi said: “No, we are not all the same”. And is the old one worth one? In the trash. Maybe that’s why Beppe Grillo he plans his own “party” and Conte, to stay safe, sends kisses to “Dibba” (born Alessandro Di Battista, who is recovering after the bad adventure in Cuba).
The plebiscite of the M5S base against weapons and the foreign policy issue
But there is an unsaid thing that divides the wider field: the position of the 5 stars onUkraine and foreign policy. Members were asked to vote online for Conte’s programmatic proposals – this is what little remains of Gianroberto Casaleggio’s legacy – well, the 91.6% do not want to send weapons to Ukraine. Out of 45,340 voters, 94.1% say no to EU rearmament, 91.8 say no to more defense spending, while 97.7% want to recognize the State of Palestine.
It’s difficult to find a square with Schlein, given that the “pacifists” of the PD the excommunication of Romano Prodiwho took it out on the youth secretary, Virginia Libero, a fan of the “defectors”.
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She also introduced herself to Nova Francesca Albanesethe UN envoy for Pal and Giuseppi did not miss the opportunity to practice leftist populism. Listing the things he intends to do, he said: «No to rearmament, Italy repudiates the war. No to commercial and military agreements with Israel. Anyone who commits genocide will never be our friend. We will recognize the State of Palestine. We must restore the abuse of office, no to the limitation of wiretaps, to the gag law, to the reform of the Court of Auditors.”
And then the usual shower of tips and the defense of Super bonus. You can tell from a mile away that his target is Elly. To Meloni he dedicates only “she is Cettina Laqualunque”. While he says to the leader of the Democratic Party: «Here there are no personal ambitions; in first place is the objective of changing Italy, we are not willing to take a step back” and Brussels must be awakened from its belligerent torpor. Not only that, Conte goes on the run talking about the premiership: “There is a community, of members and non-members, who has given me a clear mandate and I cannot escape it.”
The secretary of the Democratic Party seemed a little dazed. He responded to Conte’s outburst with a laconic: “First the program, then the names, then the guide.”
Schlein will be stubbornly united, but for now she’s in the corner, to the point that she also responds to Meloni by going a little off topic: «The point is that you have to tell us when we’re going to vote, because the sooner we put an end to her failures the better. When the vote comes, we will be ready.” With a coalition that doesn’t know where to go in foreign policy and with a prime ministerial candidate to find. Schlein is left with Meloni’s (alleged) failures: health care is exhausted, as is the university, wages at the minimum, fuels out of control, the energy policy that doesn’t exist and as for schools, as Avs suggests: «The cap on foreigners was already in a Gelmini circular at the time of Berlusconi, but it has been seen that it cannot be done». However, even the wide field is difficult to fence off.
