After the flop at the regional

An anti-Schlein in the coalition primaries: this is how the Pd reformists meditate on the backlash against the secretary

With the indication of the prime ministerial candidate on the ballot paper wanted by Meloni, the race for the premiership of the wide camp will also be a Dem congress. Meanwhile, the minority will focus on the economy and EU defence with two conferences at the end of October in Milan and Livorno

by Emilia Patta

La segretaria del Pd Elly Schlein. ANSA/ TELENEWS

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Translated by AI
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3' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

"If the electoral law were to be reformed, I would be for a law that is also good for the premierate, and therefore with the indication of the premier candidate on the ballot paper. The premierate will go ahead, that is why it is not worth making an electoral law and then making another one after the referendum on the premierate. If there were still doubts in the centre-left about Giorgia Meloni's intention to change the Rosatellum to vote in the 2027 elections with a system more favourable to her, these were dispelled by the premier herself in her long interview at Porta a Porta on 7 October.

Meloni's challenge: electoral law with indication of the prime ministerial candidate

The scheme is confirmed: approval of the constitutional reform that introduces the direct election of the premier by the end of the legislature, so as to hold the confirmatory referendum after the political elections, and in the meantime reform of the Rosatellum to overcome the lottery of single-member constituencies to introduce a proportional-based system with a majority prize for whoever exceeds 40% and - precisely - the indication of the name of the premier candidate.

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Wide (and divided) camp forced into coalition primaries?

Con il via libera alla candidatura del leghista Alberto Stefani alla successione di Luca Zaia in Veneto sono cadute le ultime resistenze di Matteo Salvini: dopo la fine del ciclo delle regionali la proposta Meloni sarà ufficialmente sul tavolo dei partiti di maggioranza e anche di opposizione. Con un problema in più per un campo largo già in affanno: chi sarà il candidato premier della coalizione, il novello Prodi capace di d’accordo le varie anime e soprattutto i “grillini” con i dem? Dopo le sconfitte oltre le previsioni nelle Marche e in Calabria l’ipotesi di un congresso anticipato del Pd, accarezzata nei mesi scorsi dalla segretaria Elly Schlein per blindarsi alla guida del partito, sembra uscita di scena. E gli occhi sono ora tutti puntati sulle primarie di coalizione, necessarie a meno di un improbabile accordo a tavolino tra la stessa Schlein e il leader del M5s Giuseppe Conte su un nome terzo.

Milan and Livorno: the anti-Schlein minority starts with two conferences

Ed è qui che si inserisce l’iniziativa, e la strategia, della minoranza riformista più agguerrita del Pd, ossia quel gruppetto di big (da Lorenzo Guerini a Graziano Delrio, da Sandra Zampa e Filippo Sensi, da Marianna Madia a Simona Malpezzi, da Giorgio Gori a Pina Picierno) che ha strappato con Energia popolare di Stefano Bonaccini giudicandola troppo schiacciata sulle posizioni della segretaria. Senza attendere le elezioni regionali in Veneto, Campania e Puglia di fine novembre, i riformisti doc cominceranno a contarsi già ad ottobre: il 24 a Milano sui temi economici con focus su ceto medio, professionisti, partite Iva e imprese - “classi” di riferimento del partito che fu, a loro avviso ora abbandonate da un Pd molto spostato a sinistra, sulle posizioni della Cgil di Maurizio Landini e dell’assistenzialismo targato M5s - e il 31 ottobre a Livorno, su iniziativa del think thank LibertàEguale di Enrico Morando, Giorgio Tonini e Stefano Ceccanti, sui temi della sicurezza e della difesa comune eur

The reformists' strategy: first shore up the issues (economic and EU defence)...

In short, in the meantime the issues dear to the reformists, from growth policies to EU defence against the Putin danger, are being shored up. On the other hand, with the M5s preparing to vote in Strasbourg right now on the motion of no-confidence against EU Commission President Ursula von del Leyen, supported by the PD and with a PD led by Schlein, in turn increasingly attracted by the pro-Pal and 'pacifist regardless' sirens of the M5s, a clarification on the international position of the Dems is necessary, as, moreover, old leaders such as Luigi Zanda and Romano Prodi himself have been arguing for some time now.

... and then field their own candidate for the premiership

But the longer-term objective concerns the coalition primaries: in the absence of an early PD congress, this will be the occasion for an internal count, a bit like what happened in 2012 with the coalition primaries that saw two exponents of the same party such as Pier Luigi Bersani and Matteo Renzi challenge each other. In short, even the reformists will most likely have their own candidate in the field, who can be placed side by side with or even merge with the candidate of the reformist House that will field Matteo Renzi (the leader of Italia Viva at the Leopolda mentioned the name of Silvia Salis but also those of Giuseppe Sala and Gaetano Manfredi).

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