An administrative or regional election certainly cannot be equated to a general political election, but when failures follow each other relentlessly perhaps the Pd should ask themselves some questions, even if uncomfortable. The debacle of the Molise follows by a few weeks that of the centre-left in the administrative elections in May, with the only and not accidental exceptions of Brescia before and of Vicenza then where the Democratic Party won without the suffocating nagging of the Five stars.
It is true what the new secretary of the Pd says, Elly Schlein, according to which – where there is a basically majority electoral law – “you cannot win alone” and it is necessary to build alliances. But the crucial point is this: are alliances the end or are they the tool to win electoral competitions and to govern? And are they the starting point or the arrival point of a coalition that becomes a winner for its unmistakable programs and objectives?
In a desperate attempt to recover support on the left, the Democratic Party has been in business for years, especially under the leadership of Nicola Zingaretti before and Elly Schlein now, gives the impression of looking for a future only by pursuing the Five Stars, even at the cost of losing one's identity and without ever clarifying what exactly he wants and what are the objectives for which he seeks consent to build an alternative to the right. Two facts remain emblematic of this long mortal embrace of the Democratic Party to the Five Stars. The first was the one in which Zingaretti touched the sense of the ridiculous in defining in 2019 a quick-change artist as Giuseppe Conte as "a very strong point of reference for all progressive forces". The former leader of Article 1 reminded us of the second only a few days ago, Roberto Speranza who had the courage to argue that for the Democratic Party it was a mistake to have sent the Conte 2 government into crisis. Draghi government whose economic effects and international credibility are unparalleled? Was it really a mistake to have supported the Draghi government? No person who knows the ABC of politics and who has truly progressive feelings could say it, but the pursuit of the Five Stars until they vanish in a deadly embrace continues to lead the Democratic Party astray and push it onto a populist and maximalist line that does fists with history and with the vocation of a great popular, national and democratic party of which it is heir. Will Molise be enough to open your eyes? Maybe. But until the Democratic Party clarifies what its royalties are goals political and programmatic and what is his vision of society and until he understands that only after and on these bases will the alliances – not only on the left but also in the center – it will be difficult to break the cycle of defeats and disappointments that has accompanied it for some time. With great joy of Melons. No, old or new Pd, this is not the case.
