“I am not a figurehead. I don't go to a catwalk. You can't discuss taxation in just one hour”. The former secretary of the Democratic Party, Pierluigi Bersani will desert today's meeting with the parliamentary groups of the party promoted by the premier and launches the final challenge to Matteo Renzi. Like him, all the main exponents of the Pd minority will desert the meeting, convened to discuss the tax authorities, Rai, schools, and cooperative banks, including the group leader in the Chamber Roberto Speranza, whom Renzi is considering replacing, considering it unsustainable that the president of deputies respond to the line of a minority current rather than that of the majority of the party and the government.
Perhaps the latter is the real reason for Bersani's irritation which officially motivates his controversial absence in terms of method ("it's not a serious comparison") and merit ("Absurd not to listen to Parliament on the Jobs Act").
Renzi does not hide his anger and his bitterness: “Let's not get lost in sterile controversies. We work for Italy, we have a great responsibility and a great opportunity that we cannot waste". The other day he had warned: "The Democratic Party needs fewer currents and more ideas".
The birth of the current Delrio, Richetti, Rughetti as Renzians of Catholic origin and the withdrawal of the candidacy of Gennaro Migliore, ex SEL, from the primaries for the Regionals in Campania have opened other wounds and exacerbated tensions.
It would be truly paradoxical that, in the face of unequivocal signs of improvement in the economy and polls showing constant electoral growth for Renzi and the Democratic Party in the face of the suicidal splits on the right, now it was precisely the Democratic Party that was divided, putting at risk the stability of the Government and slipping on the inclined plane leading to early elections.
It is no coincidence that yesterday Renzi reserved a fulminating quip for Bersani: "Bersani behaved as Bertinotti did with Prodi" when the intransigence of the leader of the Communist Refoundation led to the fall of the first Prodi government.
