Lose the regional elections for a handful of votes hurts. And it hurts even more if you consider that the political opponents were burdened by the handicap of a sensational judicial storm with the accusation of corruption on those who had governed the Liguria. But what is more incredible is that the votes that were decisive for winning in Liguria were at the disposal of the centre-left which removed them due to the absurd veto of Giuseppe Conte, the leader of the Five stars, to the detriment of Italia Viva by Matteo Renzi.
The numbers speak for themselves. The mayor of Genoa and the centre-right candidate to lead Liguria, Marco Bucci he beat the centre-left candidate, Andrea Orlando, for a few thousand votes. In the last European elections, Renzi alone took 6.100 preferences in Liguria: those votes would have been enough to change the result, but the obtuseness of Conte, who with his M5S collected a miserable percentage of consensus with a very serious debacle that reduced it to below 5%, pushed the center-left to the most sensational own goal: giving up a package of votes, those of Italia Viva, which, as we have seen, represented the deciding factor in the elections in Liguria.
For Conte, vetoes are better than votes: the important thing is to lose
Faced with his hallucinatory behavior, Conte defends himself by climbing up the mirrors and claiming that "with Renzi in the coalition we would have lost more votes". But the facts belie this because the Five Stars have lost many votes even without Renzi, preferring abstentionism, starting with Beppe Grillo. Conte's clumsy political philosophy could be summed up in a few words: better vetoes than votes because the important thing is to lose. That the leader of the Five Stars loves self-harm is his business for which he will answer to his militants and his voters, but what is politically incomprehensible is that, as has already happened on other occasions, the largest party of the left, the PD, supinely accepts to follow Conte and suffer his disastrous diktats.
It is the same syndrome of defeat that the French socialists are experiencing, who, by following the maximalist line of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, they have thrown away the possibility of seeing an independent socialist as Cazeneuve at the helm of the government. Similarly, until the Democratic Party overcomes its inferiority complex and its subservience to Conte, Meloni can sleep soundly. If the governance of the center-left does not change, the alternative to the center-right government is not for today or even tomorrow.
