NANETTI DELLA POLITICA - Fitto and Civati, the parallel convergences in nullism

NANETTI DELLA POLITICA – Raffaele Fitto on the right and Pippo Civati on the left rage in the newspapers and on talk shows with bombastic dissidences towards the leaders of Forza Italia in the first case and of the Democratic Party in the second, but under the tactics it is not clear what their alternative proposal for the country - Under the "no" a zero-sum game.

Two sides of the same coin, that of the prejudicial dissidents of Forza Italia and the Democratic Party who would like to climb the hierarchies of their respective parties without having the strength to propose viable alternatives. The two movements headed by a Goofy Civati in the Pd ee Raffaele Fitto in Forza Italia they are not to be united because they bear opposite but parallel values – because in hindsight it is not the case at all – but because they fit into a potential scrapping context that neither of them however has the ideas and the strength to transform into reality . Both are the expression of political positions different from those of their party to which they belong, in a different but also parallel way.

On the one hand, Fitto proposes a political line that is not all that dissimilar from Berlusconi's today, but outlines methods that are completely opposite to those that have always characterized the Casa delle Libertà. His protest, therefore, is about the form, the method, rather than the content of the policies of the moderate part of the country. Of course, this discourse could potentially translate into the support of political formations other than those of Forza Italia, see Nuovo Centro-destra and the moderate Northern League led by Tosi – the reference to the forthcoming local elections is all too clear.

On the other side of the parliamentary hemicycle there are the torments of the young Civati, Renziano of the first hour and then jealous of the premier. Civati's claims take on a very different consistency from those of his conservative counterpart. Indeed, the MP from Monza proposes a reading of the Left that is diametrically opposed to that of the majority of the Democratic Party and, needless to say, of the Renzi government. To be critical, Civati's is an obsolete Left, centered on outdated social and economic schemes, still with the old-trade union claims defended by the Fiom secretary Maurizio Landini, oriented towards the parliamentary dynamics of dissent rather than governance. However, if we want to limit ourselves to a judgment of fact - leaving aside opinions on the merits - there is a clear discrepancy between this type of policy and the one undertaken more than a year ago by his party, above all by Renzi. This focuses on the decision-making process of democracy, on the concept of the majority as a golden rule, on the need to overcome trade union logics in the name of an increasingly globalized reality that needs competitiveness rather than the protection of obsolete rights and above all on a project modernization of the country to which Civati always says no for tactical reasons but without being able to propose alternative contents that are truly practicable and capable of coagulating a broad consensus.

So, where are the two dissident experiences of the Right and the Left similar?

Civati and Fitto are the same in how they manage the feeling of dissidence for which they are spokesmen. Both never fail to underline how erroneous the choices of their party's leadership are, from internal dynamics to parliamentary and cabinet dynamics. The choices of both can be inscribed in the ever-stocked roll of honor of "all smoke and no fire". Feelings of such harsh opposition probably cannot coexist for long within the same political entity.

Both Civati and Fitto are well aware that they do not have what in English is called bargaining power, sufficient to create their own political force.

If Civati were to leave the Democratic Party and found a new political subject, his electoral and contractual strength in Parliament would be reduced even more, assuming and not granted that he manages to exceed the hypothetical threshold of the Italicum of 3%, except that it does not join what remains of Sel. A party to the left of the PD would have the same modest strategic importance as the PD minority led by Civati even now. The game, therefore, is not worth the candle and would only be a facade move, because the effective capacity of this new hypothetical reality would not differ from the current one - with the risk of not being elected as happened to Fausto Bertinotti with the Communist Refoundation or the mockery of joining the "old" PD in a single list where it would lose the autonomy it had earned.

At the same time, Fitto's movement does not have a real political base, which it instead shares both with Berlusconi himself and with the moderate part of Flavio Tosi's League and – the latest statements also envisage this scenario – with the New Centre-right of Angelino Alfano. The tear would be a slap to the leadership that raised and "fed" him, without proposing something different - as Civati tries to do in part - with the sole purpose of assuming command of the party to which he is not legitimized by anyone. And yet, Fitto is lucky enough to have those aforementioned political subjects potentially aligned with his initiative and the next local elections could function as a test bed for a new political reality. Furthermore, Fitto fights with an absent leadership: Berlusconi, in fact, is increasingly eclipsing himself from his political dimension to return to the entrepreneurial one, which certainly belongs to him more - look at the operations Rai Way e Milan. On the contrary, Civati finds himself clashing with the strongest personality that the Italian Left has known after Berlinguer and Craxi.

A zero-sum game to the left and a confused, beheaded chessboard to the right. In short, everything seems to do nothing but add grist to Renzi's mill, both as head of government and as the best leader of the strongest Italian - and, figures in hand, European - party.