Despite its efforts to preach unity in view of the primaries and the political elections, the left appears strongly divided in the administrative elections of 24 and 25 May. From Salerno to Enna, passing through Trani and Viareggio, the coalition parties go to the polls in no particular order.
Make way for him to pass again: the bulky former senator of the Democratic Party, Mirello Crisafulli. Concentration of cunning and truthfulness. Seventy-seven years and not hearing them. The aspiring mayor of Enna opened the electoral campaign in the university assembly hall, which he wanted very strongly despite only having a primary school diploma. Crowded room. Not even standing room. The loudspeakers blast a mocking Vasco Rossi: «I’m still here. Oh, yeah…” Elly Schleinthe annoyed secretary, denied him the symbol. He, like Inspector Montalbano, doesn’t care: “I don’t need it, everyone knows who I am.” He said: «In Enna I win with the majority, with the proportional system and also with the draw». She said: «We must strike at the feudal management of consensus. Enough with the caciques and the currents that block the party.”
The Red Baron, however, still flies on the top of the island. Mirello challenge Elly. «From up here I can see far away and with a certain detachment». Without waiting for the stamp of the “pseudo national leaders”, he self-certifies: “I am the Democratic Party”. Even in the inaccessible capital, in the middle of the most bristly and left-wing Sicily, voting takes place at the end of May. The opposition is eager. Between the success of the referendum on justice and the next policies, these crucial administrative elections arrive. What better opportunity to demonstrate that it won’t be yet another crusade of the Brancaleone Army? So pacts are made, programs are drawn up, harmony is professed. To try to make people forget what the Second Republic promptly disavowed.
The return of the caciques and the mirage of the Campo largo
The revived Campo Largo already looks like the eradicated olive tree. He won the elections twice, to quickly wither into government. And even today, from Zagarolo to Conversano, the coalition is struggling. In Enna, Mirello he ensured victory even with the draw. In Salerno, Vincenzo De Luca he reiterated: “Here even the stones vote for me.” He too is a cacicco: indeed the most illustrious exponent of the immortal category. He doesn’t love Elly. Euphemism. The feeling is reciprocated. The past is certainly not idyllic. Let’s summarize, therefore: a year ago the “Sheriff” did not run for governor in Campania again, but only because the rule on the third term had not passed. On the other hand, in October 2025 his eldest son became regional secretary of the Democratic Party.
The adamantine hoped she had fooled the wise guy. Deluded. Don Vincent now he wants to become, for the fifth non-consecutive time, mayor of Salerno. He too is concerned about the Capitoline agreements. So much so that it forced 5 Star and Avs, fiercely opposed, to run with their own candidate: Franco Massimo Lanocita. Not to mention the denied symbol, of course. The son, Pierohe outlines: civility in the city is “tradition”. The former minister, Andrea Orlandoquips: «Traditions must always be respected, like Christmas and Easter». The mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfrediseals: «Evidently the symbol was not needed…».
The fractures on the Pd-M5S axis from Puglia to Emilia
In Campania it is the people who suffer. In neighboring Puglia, however, the dreams of harmony are shattered above all by the Five Star Movement Giuseppe Contefuture contender of the «stubbornly unitary» Elly in the primaries. The progressives run divided in Trani, Molfetta and Gallipoli. Not even in San Giovanni Rotondo does the miracle succeed. It is not only the homeland of Padre Pio. The former prime minister himself moved here as a young man following his father, who became municipal secretary. In short, the matchmakers in the broad field had to appear well-disposed and charitable. Instead, nothing. Even in the city that houses the remains of the saint and the memories of the young Giuseppi, it ends badly. Pd and Five Star on the one hand. Reformists on another. Communist refoundation from yet another. In the scarlet Emilia-Romagna, meanwhile, the diaspora of Avs proceeds. The local leaders of Green Europe accuse the leader, Angelo Bonelliof having sold out ecologism to please the Piddini allies, accused of the most shameful overbuilding.
And then there’s him: the irrepressible Matteo Renzi. Despite the vaunted brotherhood and numerical irrelevance of Italia Vivamanages to stir like no one ever. He still considers Tuscany his fiefdom. And the next administrative elections will be decisive. They don’t take prisoners. See the case of yet another old Dem glory: David Erminiformer vice-president of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, first friend and then bitter enemy of Machiavelli di Rignano. They had loved each other so much, ever since Matthew he was president of the Province of Florence. Ermini he entered Parliament at the time of the scrapping epic. Until the definitive consecration: the guidance of the CSM. But then Renzi he recanted: “A sensational political mistake.” Never would a choice have been more disastrous: “Mediocre people should never be rewarded.” Erminiafter further accusations, announced a lawsuit. But the fearless man raged: «He became vice-president of the CSM thanks to the Palamara method».
The psychodrama of the late Giglio Magico in Tuscany
Now the villain is running for mayor in Incisa and Figline Valdarno, with the support of the Pd and Avs. The Five Stars withdraw: in 2024 the former Renzian supporter was appointed president of Spininvest, the financial holding of Aldo Spinelli. And the terminal operator has agreed to three years and two months for the investigation into the Genoese port which overwhelmed the former Ligurian governor, Giovanni Toti. But not even Casa Riformista, the latest idea by Matthewsupport Ermini. Indeed: he advances an antagonistic candidacy. “It’s disconcerting” the Democratic Party attacks the senator Dario Parrini and the deputy Simona Bonafèformer regional secretaries in the roaring era of Matthew in power. The two rage: «Did they not have the courage to use the symbol of Italia Viva for fear of losing votes? Consistency in politics is fundamental.” So it’s up to us to respond to the indomitable Francesco Bonifazicommissioner of Italia Viva in Toscana: «Are Parrini and Bonafè talking about coherence? Look at Ermini’s turns. Who knows what their former friend Luca Lotti thinks about it.”
It is the last, heartbreaking, psychodrama of the former “magic lily”. Even in Sesto Fiorentino, however, the Renzians decide to shatter Schleine’s dreams. The dramatic rupture comes over the expansion of Peretola airport. Extremely wide field. Very favorable Reformist House. Together with Action, +Europa and a host of acronyms it therefore supports another challenger: Alessandro Martiniformer councilor in Florence of the second Nardella council.
And even in Viareggio they persisted. Yet, things seemed to be going wonderfully. Honoring the Roman liturgies, the primaries were even celebrated. However, the winner does not meet the tastes of Italians. So, after having participated hopefully in the match, they decided first to take the ball home and then to puncture it. In accordance with the noble spirit of the consultation, obviously: «The result certifies the internal differences, there was no clear winner».
So make way for another aspirant. No alliance. Even in Versilia it already looks like the good old olive tree. «I didn’t just want to go to parties. I wanted to have the power to make them fail” says the protagonist of The Great Beauty, welcoming his controversial intentions. Matteo Renzi he is already the Jep Gambardella of the wide field. He seems to be in very good company. Stubbornly united, of course. But up to a certain point. Until convenience do them part.
