Schlein seeks the embrace of Sanchez and world progressives: the time for right-wingers is over

'Non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa'. While her 'competitor' Giuseppe Conte continues (actually since the day of the No vote in the referendum on justice, on 23 March) to relaunch the issue of coalition primaries to choose the candidate prime minister of the broad field of progressives, Elly Schlein is behaving like Dante's Virgil in the third Canto of Hell and is really going to the world progressives - gathered in Barcelona for the first time in a broad format, beyond the perimeter of the socialists, ranging from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to Brazilian President Lula -. And she is going there as a prime ministerial candidate in pectore, as the leader of the largest party in the European socialist and democratic family and therefore as the natural anti-Meloni.

On the other hand, the principle applies throughout Europe that the task of leading the government, in the event of victory, falls to the leader of the party that gets the most votes. And it is no coincidence that the secretary of the Democratic Party has been ignoring the issue of the primaries for a few days now, even though she is ready to run if necessary, concentrating rather on the weaving of international relations (her speach in the plenary of the Global Progressive Mobilisation is scheduled just before the closure of the two-day event by Sanchez and Lula) and even national ones (in the party's leadership on 13 April she announced her intention to transform the committees for the No vote formed together with the CGIL and a multitude of civic associations into committees for the "defence of the Constitution"). All wire for the weaving of his candidature for Palazzo Chigi, with or without primaries. With the consolation, most recently, of the first polls (You Trend) that after several weeks see her in the lead in a possible competition with Conte and the mayor of Genoa Silvia Salis. Time to time.

The Barcelona meeting wanted by Sanchez comes not by chance when the 'black' international, the one that goes from Donald Trump to the European Patriots, begins to show the first signs of crisis: the defeat of the Meloni government in the referendum on justice, the unpopularity of the war on Iran unleashed by a US president who now seems out of control, the defeat of the champion of European sovereignty Victor Orban in Hungary. 'The time of right-wingers is over, we are with Sanchez to say that the international anti-Sovereignist and in defence of democracy is born here', is the message Schlein wants to get across. The implication is also that Conte was not invited despite his choice of 'progressive' camp. On the other hand, M5s, after many years as a stateless person, has finally landed in the European ultra-left family of Left, where anti-European parties also sit, albeit for reasons opposite to those of the Right.