The two major parties that make up the "strange" majority, namely the PDL and the Democratic Party, are at a crucial stage, which could jeopardize their unity and therefore their survival in their current forms. The PDL has been experiencing a collective psychodrama for some time, which drags on in a succession of inconclusive meetings in Palazzo Grazioli, with an increasingly discouraged and demotivated Silvio Berlusconi and with the general staffs who look askance at each other.
In turn, the Democratic Party experiences the fundamental passage of the coalition primaries just as dramatically and tomorrow the national assembly will have to identify and approve the rules that will allow Matteo Renzi to participate in the internal count, finding a point of balance between the different souls of the party. Both for the PDL and for the Pd, the newspapers evoke the split hypothesis in the headlines.
In the Democratic Party, the latest news gives some glimmer of possible, but not yet probable, reassurance. Bersani and Renzi are apparently looking for a shared solution that allows the primaries to be held: Renzi could accept the double round and the public list of voters, but he is clearly opposed to the pre-registration of voters. But the Democratic Party does not lack those like Bindi and Fioroni who are much more hostile than Bersani to making concessions to the mayor of Florence.
Nor should it be forgotten that what was decided on Saturday by the Pd assembly will then be submitted to Vendola (SEL) and Nencini (PSI), given that these are coalition primaries. In turn, Di Pietro too would be tempted to try to get the IDV to participate in the centre-left consultation. Finally, it should be remembered that the assembly of the Democratic Party that meets tomorrow is made up of a thousand people and this makes it difficult both to reach the quorum envisaged for deliberating (half plus 1 of those entitled), and to have rigid control of the assembly by part of the management team.
Returning to the PDL, it seems Berlusconi's candidacy is now increasingly difficult (internal situation of the party, scandals, trials and above all the polls would advise against it). But, according to reports from the area newspapers, the former prime minister is nonetheless determined to remain in the field of politics, scrapping (or even leaving "Il Giornale" as his own title) the PDL, and offering new political solutions to the field of moderate.
Moderates to whom they look with their political offer the supporters of Monti bis: from Casini and Fini to the "Independents for Italy" of Auci and Mazzanti, to the liberals of "Stop the decline" of Oscar Giannino. A long electoral campaign has begun, which, however, in the absence of the rules for voting, is proceeding in the dark for now.
