The decisive vote of the Five Stars in favor of the new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Russiagate in which the Northern League leader got entangled - with impressive amateurism Matteo Salvini they visibly make the traditionalist wing of the Democratic Party dream, which ranges from Zingaretti to Gentiloni, from Orlando and Zanda to Franceschini and which, not knowing how to get out of the corner in a proportional system, dreams in secret an alliance or even a government with M5S.
The facade denials of both sides leave the time they find but the clues, as he also points out The paper, are many and not least the editorial of the founder de La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari who politically rehabilitates the premier Giuseppe Conte and invites the Democratic Party to take it into consideration for the immediate future.
Before the vote in the European Parliament in favor of Von der Leyen and even before the common request to Deputy Prime Minister Salvini to explain the Russian intrigue to the Chambers complete with a proposal for a parliamentary commission of inquiry into party funding, the "parallel convergences" between the Democratic Party and the Five Stars had already manifested themselves on the occasion of the anti-Foa resolution on Rai and on a series of minor occasions. “All the clues – he notes again The paper – lead to a dialogue” not so much out of deep conviction but “out of inertia or lack of ideas”.
After all, Salvini explains to his reluctance to send the Five Stars to that country and ad pave the way for the government crisis precisely with the fear that, at that point, the Movement of Luigi Di Maio and the Democratic Party could find a government agreement. A hypothesis, admitted and not granted that in Parliament there really are the numbers for a M5S-Pd government, which would prevent early elections which terrorize the Five Stars and which could lead the Democratic Party led by Zingaretti to demonstrate – especially to Matteo Renzi and his followers, who have always been opposed to any alliance with the Five Stars – that they are once again protagonists.
But it would be about a midsummer dream that ends at dawn and a catastrophic illusion. Not only because Salvini - if he is not shot by Moscopoli - would unleash the dogma against the Pd-Cinque Stelle alliance aiming to fill up in the elections but above all because it is not clear on what political and programmatic bases a bizarre Pd government could ever be born- M5S that would clip the wings of each in the bud serious project of a real democratic alternative to the sovereignists of all races.
Any theme is valid to act as a litmus test. Just choose. But let's take two of them just to give some examples: institutional reforms and economic policy. The grillini, who harshly opposed the only constitutional reform project in 70 years that reached the threshold of the finish line in the referendum two years ago, have never hidden their annoyance with representative democracy and it is no coincidence that they are fighting in Parliament for a sneaky use of popular referendums and for the reduction of parliamentarians which would concentrate political power in restricted party oligarchies. Does the Democratic Party have anything to do with this anti-democratic drift?
But then there is the economic policy that the Five Stars have never declined in terms of development but only in terms of welfare as the Citizenship Income abundantly testifies. In his infinite twists and turns - which make him completely unreliable both on the Ilva and on the Tav and on the Tap - Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio canceled his anti-Atlantia ruling (wasn't it a "decottated" company?) to relaunch its shaky rescue of Alitalia but immediately putting its hands forward: the airline's personnel do not touch themselves. The taxpayers pay both through the FS and through the MEF who will take control of Alitalia. Is this the innovation and development policy that the Democratic Party thinks about? Best wishes, but if this were the case, it is not clear what political and electoral gain Zingaretti's party could ever have from a mortal embrace with the Five Stars. And above all, it is not clear what advantage Italy would have from a Pd-MS5 mess.
Kick Salvini and the League out of the government as soon as possible and closing the ominous sovereign season is certainly the sacrosanct dream of all Italian democrats, but it is not with fake shortcuts that a reformist and pro-European alternative is built which has yet to find an identity of content, values and programs on which the Democratic Party is appallingly late.
An argument that supporters of the Pd-M5S government alliance often use is that early elections would lead to a new Parliament in which the League would be decisive to impose the future President of the Republic. But it is a specious argument, because, beyond the first polls that arrive too early to be reliable, it remains to be seen what the real electoral effect of Russiagate and Salvini's lies on the League and it is not written anywhere that the image of the deputy prime minister emerges unscathed. On the contrary.
Of course, nothing prevents - and indeed it is about time it happened - that the Democratic Party presses the current majority by widening its contradictions and that it also dialogues with the Five Stars on individual points, but rather than messing up, early elections are always better. Quirinal permitting.
