It may have been the sacredness of the Convent of Contignano, where Nicola Zingaretti summoned the cadres of the Democratic Party for two days to draw up the road map of the party, but if the good morning starts in the morning, the identity of the "new party" launched by the secretary of the Nazarene is that of genuflection. Genuflection to the Five Stars. More than discontinuity. It had already happened with the cut in parliamentarians, with the confirmation of the citizen's income and the 100 quota for pensions, but it seemed that at least on justice the pride of the Democratic Party could strike a blow, considering that on the prescription the former Minister of Justice and now deputy secretary of the Democratic Party, Andrea Orlando had presented a radically different reform proposal from the justicialist reform of the grillino minister Bonafede. But it was an illusion.
In the Justice Commission of the Chamber, where the controversial Bonafede reform is under discussion, the only political force of the centre-left that endorsed the original Orlando proposal and the Pd was Italy Viva by Matteo Renzi, who was not afraid to vote on an amendment by the forced Costa, defeated by just one vote. And the Democratic Party? Missing, without even explaining why he had disavowed his previous proposal but unloading rivers of anger against Renzi, guilty of remaining faithful to the anti-justicialist line and of having discovered the self-defeating games of the Democratic Party who dream of the final embrace with the Five Stars.
If Zingaretti's is the "new party" heaven forbid. The search for an alliance with the Five Stars in full disarray can also be a political calculation, however questionable it may be, but flattening and subjection to grillino populism is another thing. It is a new form of populism, practiced by a party like the Democratic Party which defines itself as "new" but which today appears as a party on its knees. A party that thinks it can recover its lost soul by clumsily moving to the left without realizing that, in doing so, it can only cloud its reforming identity and open a highway to the hated Renzi.
