Schlein, think again about the Taruffi scheme: Annunziata, Tarquinio and Strada are not worth Tinagli and Gualmini

In Pd they call it lo Taruffi scheme, from the name of the head of the party organization, Igor Taruffi to whom the secretary Elly Schlein has entrusted the preparation of the lists for the European elections in June and the identification of the list leaders. The scheme is made up of two words: more to the left and more external candidates. And this is where the sparks begin because Schlein, in addition to nominating herself, has in mind to apply the Taruffi scheme by offering a top candidacy to the former journalist and President of Rai, Lucia Announced, to the former Director of Avvenire, Marco Tarquinio, and to the daughter of the founder of Emergency, Cecilia Road. Effervescent candidacies certainly, even if it remains to be demonstrated that they bring votes. But, even before the votes, there are two problems, one bigger than the other. The first concerns the coherence of the candidatures with the party line and this is especially true for Tarquinio who has never made a secret, as director of the bishops' newspaper as he was, of being against sending weapons toUkraine and to be against the parenting of a couple of two people of the same gender and tolegal abortion. But are these very forceful positions compatible or are they completely in contrast with the Democratic Party's line? The second problem concerns who risks paying the price of the candidacies imagined by Schlein and Taruffi. The Democratic Party runs the risk of giving up two outgoing parliamentarians, both women and both highly esteemed, of the caliber of the economist Irene Tinagli, who in this legislature was the President of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Commission of the European Parliament, and of the political scientist Elizabeth Gualmini. None of the three leaders thought up by the PD leaders has the competence and political linearity of Tinagli and Gualmini. What's the point of penalizing them? Elly think again, but down from the tower for now.