Lia Quartapelle (Pd) to Schlein: "Following the line of Syriza, you end up ending up like Syriza"

Sometimes a joke is worth more than complicated speeches to photograph the state of the art and the risks that the social confusion of the Pd di Elly Schlein, as Il Foglio calls it, is running. Leaving the day before yesterday from the Nazarene, Lia Quartapelle, one of the most brilliant parliamentarians of the Democratic Party and a great expert in international politics, has not hidden her concern about the drift that the Schlein secretariat is taking. So much vagueness about the contents, impulses of maximalism with hints of sectarianism towards the Third Pole, and absolute confusion about the alliances which, if they were reduced to chasing the Five starswould have the sole result of lengthening the political duration of the era ad infinitum Melons. “To follow Syriza's line, one ends up ending up like Syriza” Quartapelle commented a little discouraged. Syriza, like the Five Stars in Italy, had aroused great hopes of change in Greece but then, despite the courage of its leader Tsipras, radicalism – you remember the colorful finance minister Varoufakis ? – had to deal with the harsh reality and severe austerity of Europe and above all of the Germans, and ended up displeasing everyone up to the defeat last May. Quartapelle's is a wise warning.