To get to France you don't need to go north. Just move left. This afternoon in Rome there will be a demonstration of this new, curious geographical law. An unprecedented rally in two voices (and two languages) will be staged on the stage of the Caprarica theater: on one side the former magistrate Antonio Ingroia, leader of the Civil Revolution and candidate for premier in the next Italian policies; on the other no less than Jean Luc Mélenchon, number one of the French left.
The original partnership was made possible thanks to the mediation of the former minister Paolo Ferrero. His party, the Communist Refoundation, has recently enlisted in the ranks of Ingroia, like the Italian Communists of Oliver Diliberto (who had also participated in the centre-left primaries at the end of the year, first supporting Vendola and then Bersani).
But the "rassemblement" did not end there. Also today, still in the capital, Ingroia will announce together with the mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando the arrival in the Civil Revolution of a group of dissidents of Sel, former party leaders at odds with Nichi Vendola following the electoral alliance with Bersani's Pd.
A path that, mutatis mutandis, resembles Mélenchon's. Leaving the French Socialists in 2008 after having been a minister in the government of Lionel Jospin, the leader of the left was the protagonist of the protest movement which in 2010 opposed the social and economic policies of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Since then Mélenchon has become a point of reference for a certain antagonistic area of European politics. Candidate in the last presidential elections, in the ballot between Sarkozy and Hollande he chose to openly support the socialist candidate. And he proved to be a key player in the difficult victory of the left in France. Perhaps today he will tell Ingroia about it.
