The abstention of the Democratic Party in the European Parliament on the new Stability Pact is simply surreal: not only because it denies all the meritorious work of Eurocommissioner Gentiloni but because it even distances him from the European socialist family. You can't sell off your reformist soul for…
After Abruzzo, the centre-right, with the support of Renzi and Calenda, confirms its leadership of Basilicata. FdI first party. The League brings up the rear of the centre-right, the M5S has 7,66%
Sunday 21st and Monday 22nd April new electoral test for majority and opposition in view of the European elections. Everything you need to know about the elections in Basilicata
The vote in the European Parliament on the Migration Pact revealed rifts: the Democratic Party, after having supported the agreement, now aligns itself with the Grillini. Meloni's political family is also divided: Lega against, Forza Italia and Fdi in favor
The Democratic Party is threatening to no longer appear on Tg1 as a sign of protest against too many reports on the scandals in Bari and Turin. What an incredible gift to the right
The scheme imagined by the head of Schlein's PD organization, Igor Taruffi, for the choice of candidates and list leaders for the European elections can be summed up in two words: more to the left and more external candidates. But that's the risk...
Lia Quartapelle is not resigned to the ambiguities of the Democratic Party on Ukraine and civil rights, which have emerged around the hypothesis of the European candidacy of the former director of Avvenire Tarquinio, and urges Schlein without hesitation
Far from being a broad field, that of the Governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, is a very broad field where he gathers men and votes from the right and left who have made him the ras of the region with a visibly transformative method. But on the case…
After the Abruzzo elections, the secretary of the Democratic Party embraces realism and, while maintaining the priority axis with the Five Star Movement, opens the doors to dialogue also to the forces of the center: "It's a mathematical fact even before a political one" if you…
Today we vote in Abruzzo. Open challenge between Marsilio, outgoing governor supported by the centre-right, and D'Amico, candidate of the broad camp. All eyes on the turnout, considered decisive. Test for majority and opposition after the Sardinia effect
The left abstains from the investigation proposed by the centre-right. We want to understand if and how useful and convenient it is for the country to accept new generation nuclear power
Prodi never misses an opportunity to stimulate the left to broaden the field: only in this way can we attempt to build an alternative to the Meloni government
The Sardinian elections do not have a national significance but they make us reflect: Meloni has lost his magic touch but the left will only be able to undermine her by allying itself with the center and adopting a realistic, reformist and anti-populist policy
The vote in the Senate commission divides the majority, triggers bipartisan protest from the governors and causes revolt among the Democrats. Thus Bonaccini's current comes to speak of "units at risk"
Tug of war between Meloni and Salvini over the third mandate for governors and mayors with political consequences that go far beyond future regional elections and can reopen many games
By rejecting Bonino's opening to Renzi for the formation of a purposeful list for the European elections, Calenda demonstrates that he has lost the luster of when he was Minister of Development and that he puts chicken-coop squabbles before a...
The leader of +Europa on the next European elections and the role of the reactionary right: "Convention on 24 February for the United States of Europe". Here's who is invited to participate and why
A hypothetical intervention by the Italian state in the capital of Stellantis would be very expensive (over 6 billion euros) but could not even remotely influence the strategy of the Italian-French car manufacturer, given that the majority is firmly in the hands of the current shareholders
With a critical article in the Manifesto, the Bari economist Gianfranco Viesti encourages the Democratic Party to take up the challenge of differentiated autonomy to fight a battle for the reconstruction of Southern Italy which has the fight against inequalities at its centre. But without a policy…
The incredible parliamentary abstention of Schlein's Democratic Party on military aid to Ukraine infuriates the reformist wing of the party and the former foreign affairs manager Lia Quartapelle does not tell them: "Elly doesn't put her heart into it"
The failure of the ESM will cost Italy dearly and the populist triad Salvini, Meloni and Conte will bear all the responsibility - Who knows if the Democratic Party will understand that chasing the Five Stars is madness and that being alongside them in the battle...
The Chamber blocks the minimum wage by law with the votes of the majority and delegates Giorgia Meloni's government to legislate on the issue: here's what happened
Runoff in the political elections if no one reaches 50% in the first round: this is the proposal of the political scientist Roberto D'Alimonte which, if accepted, can allow for the direct election of the prime minister without changing the Constitution and can put people back on the right track…
The result of the by-elections in Monza which confirmed the victory of Galliani for the centre-right in the name of Berlusconi give rise to reflection for two reasons: the boom in abstentions and the inability of the left, which preferred a local candidate, to…
Elly Schlein thinks of overturning the party form of the Democratic Party by electing local secretaries through consultations open not only to members but also to external militants according to the gazebo model. But if this is the case, why should a sympathizer…
Labor is the only winning left-wing force in Europe today and they are preparing to oust the Conservatives from Downing Street in the next elections: it is the result of the reformist and Blairite turn of the new leader Keir Starmer who has now…
Interview with Enrico Morando, former senator and expression of the most reformist wing of the Democratic Party - "I don't understand why the Democratic Party has joined the government's mess on the so-called extra profits of the banks" - "The platform on which it was born needs to be corrected…
Meloni's populism also makes converts on the left: Conte, Landini, Fratoianni and part of the Democratic Party applaud the extra tax on banks and advocate its extension to insurance, military, pharmaceutical and energy industries, thus beating credibility...
Giorgia Meloni opens the discussion, the majority agrees not to vote on the amendments in the commission and go to the chamber on July 27th. The game moves to autumn
The Five Stars vote with the right for a salary increase of 16 euros net per year for the group leaders of the Chamber but then they are a little ashamed and announce that they will give up on collecting it. But then why did they vote for him?
A repeal amendment that cancels the proposal on the minimum wage with a swipe of the sponge. Sources of the Majority: "Forced to do it". Oppositions on the attack: "Insult to Italians" - But the real alternative is not between minimum wage Yes or No but…
Following the Pd and Cinque Stelle bill on the guaranteed minimum wage, the secretaries of the CGIL and UIL risk a sensational own goal that does not guarantee adequate wages, weakens union representation and above all reduces spaces…
Roberto Gravina admits defeat and congratulates the winner. The M5S collapses with 7% of the votes. Pd at 12% like Forza Italia
The debacle in Molise is yet another confirmation that for the Democratic Party, the pursuit of the Five Stars only leads to distortion and defeat. If the Democratic Party does not decide to clearly say what it wants and only then to look for…
The big names of the main parties have all flocked to Molise where on Sunday 25 and Monday 26 there will be votes for the regional ones, which have turned into a testing ground on a national scale
Wise warning from the brilliant Pd parliamentarian to the Schlein secretariat: maximalism and populism risk repeating the defeat of Syriza in Greece in Italy and lengthening the life of the Meloni era
"You can't win alone" Schlein defends himself in front of the Democratic Party leadership after Saturday's boomerang with Grillo and Conte but then stumbles over alliances failing to strike up a dialogue with the Third Pole
Article 1 is officially part of Elly Schlein's Pd, moving it even further to the left. But the nostalgia for the Conte 2 government, which - as is well known - was followed by the arrival of Draghi at Palazzo Chigi, gives us no hope…
"Reformist friends, who are ferring us in the Democratic Party: they don't love you and Schlein wants your abjuration": this is what Matteo Renzi said at the national assembly of IV where he made golden bridges to the reformist wing of the Democratic Party and pressed…
Elly Schlein's main sponsor defends the new secretary after the electoral debacle but seems to ignore that the vagueness of the contents of the current Pd does not even remotely foreshadow an alternative to the Meloni government
INTERVIEW WITH STEFANO CECCANTI, constitutionalist and former parliamentarian of the Democratic Party - "There is a red thread that goes from Thesis 1 of the Olive Tree to the idea of a non-elective premiership" and the Democratic Party cannot be shy about this - The constitutional reforms…
The inconsistency and dilettantism of the centre-right, unable to connect with the city, were the real key to the electoral result which facilitated the success of the centre-left and the affirmation of the new mayor Laura Castelletti, who has been without a party for ten years
The secretary of the Democratic Party is perhaps starting to get out of the political and programmatic vagueness: the support for Ukraine and the Yes to the Mes are very clear, even if partly obscured by the contradictions on labor policies
In the ballot for the election of the mayor of Vicenza, the young dem candidate, Giacomo Possamai, wants to play it his way to intercept cross votes: with the politics of concreteness rather than with the help of national leaders and their poisons
Only a far-sighted constitutional reform can cancel the Italian anomaly of weak and short-lived governments - The two hypotheses on the table and the test of maturity that awaits Meloni but also the opposition
The premier opens the discussion on constitutional reforms and excludes prejudicial choices for semi-presidentialism and the premiership, which the Pd and the Five Stars exclude a priori instead. The Third Pole supports the model of the Mayor of Italy
Uneasy about the Schlein line, which "criticizes the role of merit", the Lombard economist, former IMF and former candidate for prime minister, leaves the Democratic Party and resigns as senator
The prime minister seems oriented to change sides: the prime ministership is better than semi-presidentialism. More powers to the Prime Minister but with direct election or not? The third pole opens up to comparison
Matteo Renzi aims to make IV "the home of all reformists" and after the first arrivals from the Democratic Party of those disappointed by Schlein's "maximalist" turn, with the new guarantee course of "Il Riformista", he is trying to attract also…
Umberto Minopoli, the first innovative Neapolitan leader of the PCI much appreciated by Giorgio Napolitano and then an industrial expert and highly competent manager, disappeared in the night
"What is Meloni waiting for to pronounce the word anti-fascism?" asks the former leader of AN, Gianfranco Fini - The reluctance to fully come to terms with the past and the disbanding of his party and government companions are…
Elly Shlein, during her first press conference as Pd secretary, clarifies the thorny point of the Rome waste-to-energy plant. On the Pnrr: "Delays of months"
"To the left with a human gaze" is the new book by Ferruccio Capelli, director of the Casa della Cultura in Milan, of which we publish an extract
INTERVIEW FRANCO FERRAROTTI , father of sociology in Italy - "We are facing an inert power that instead of tackling and solving problems is content to last as in Andreotti's time" - "The Meloni government floats and does not…
The municipal assembly of Rome, including the Democratic Party, rejected an agenda of Italia Viva which asked for a clear timetable for the construction of the waste-to-energy plant which is the only way to really overcome the waste emergency. And someone wonders if it's not…
Weekend of tension for Italian politics after the pro-Meloni turn in Forza Italia and the search for a balance in the Democratic Party on the group leaders and the new secretariat
INTERVIEW WITH MARCO BENTIVOGLI, former general secretary of the metalworkers of the Fim-Cisl - Both the CGIL and the Democratic Party have a huge problem of representation and Landini's ability to change will be measured in the facts, but his references…
During her first question time, the premier answered questions from the majority and the opposition. First confrontation with the new PD secretary Schlein who asked him about minimum wage and parental leave
Elly Schlein at the Democratic Party Assembly: "Let's build an alternative to the right-wings that are in the Government, the worst in Europe" - And he extends his hand to the Third Pole and M5S: "We need to dialogue with the other opposition forces"
In the end, the square seems to have been found: Bonaccini will be the next president of the Democratic Party - But there are still many boxes that need to be filled - The national assembly in Rome on Sunday 12
The surprise election of Elly Schlein does not close the game with reformism and the Democratic Party should not be considered lost but the game plan must be changed and Calenda and Renzi must hurry to found the common home of all…
Schlein's surprising victory in the Pd primaries will have effects not only on the left but on the entire Italian political scene and raises four considerations: here are the ones
The gazebos overturn the vote of the circles and, against all the polls, lead to victory in the primaries Elly Schlein, who thus becomes the first female secretary of the Democratic Party on a movementist and populist line that breaks with the history of…
Sunday 26 February we vote for the new secretary of the Democratic Party: Elly Schlein against Stefano Bonaccini. How to find the nearest gazebo? Who can vote and how, what do the polls say? Here's everything you need to know about voting
The TV duel between the two candidates for secretary of the Democratic Party who will face each other in the primaries on Sunday is disappointing - Bonaccini is more concrete and no concessions to maximalism, many slogans but some amnesia too many in Schlein
INTERVIEW WITH BIAGIO DE GIOVANNI, philosopher and former MEP of the Pd area. “We are witnessing the end of representative democracy” – “The Democratic Party must find itself and detach itself from the 5 Stars” – “I hope Bonaccini wins. Schlein is a…
The final results of the elections have finally arrived. Who are elected to the Lazio regional council: here are all the names and the balance of power between the parties
Both in Lombardy and in Lazio, the center-right wins the absolute majority but electoral participation is at historic lows - In Lombardy, FdI surpasses the League but does not break through - Slight recovery of the Democratic Party - Flop Moratti - Debacle…
Sunday 12 and Monday 13 February we vote for the Lazio 2023 regional elections - Three main candidates for the chair of president - Here's everything you need to know to prepare for the vote
Bonaccini does not close the doors to Renzi while Schlein dreams of an embrace with the Five Stars but, beyond the political orientations, which people are the two main competitors at the helm of the Democratic Party? Here's what we discovered
Strong reference to political realism addressed to the Democratic Party by Giulio Napolitano, academic and son of President Emeritus Giorgio. "If you make the opposition in a prejudicial and declamatory way you condemn yourself to political irrelevance"
For the presidency of Lombardy, the Democratic Party is banking on Majorino and rejecting the Moratti hypothesis: a truly worrying political ingenuity in the leadership of the Democratic Party that the good news of the reformist Bonaccini's entry into the field is not enough to counterbalance. Here because
Letta strictly rules out an agreement with the Third Pole on Moratti's candidacy in the next regional elections in Lombardy but for now hasn't found a convincing alternative
Despite a historic defeat in the last political elections, no basic self-criticism emerges from the Democratic Party and no impetus towards a turning point that can restore a future to the party - Yet the congress is the last chance for a clear choice...
Giorgia Meloni will today receive Mattarella's task of forming the new government and perhaps already in the afternoon she will present the team of ministers - Tuesday in Parliament but first the important meeting with Macron
To the direction of Pd Letta makes mea culpa: "You arrived at the elections with an incomplete profile". The secretary asks to restart from the opposition, from a generational change and from a greater representation of women
The threats launched during the electoral campaign towards the EU are worrying: it is to be hoped that the impact with reality will lead Meloni to forget the electoral promises of his allies
After the victory, Meloni chooses reassuring tones: "We focus on what unites more than on what divides"
Enrico Letta of the Pd and Matteo Salvini are the two great losers of the political elections of 25 September: the internal showdown and the very concrete risk of losing their seats are being prepared for them
The center-right wins the elections by 43% to 27%: it is dragged towards Palazzi Chigi by the success of the Brothers of Italy which becomes the first party - Pd under 20% and Lega under 10%
According to the first trend poll, the center-right wins the political elections of 25 September and Giorgia Meloni becomes the first party with 25% of the votes which puts her in pole position to receive the mandate from the Head of State to…
According to the Noto institute, Meloni, three weeks after the vote, has three and a half points ahead of Letta but, beyond the head-to-head between Lega and Cinque Stelle, the surprise is the growth of Calenda and…
Seeing Salvini and Berlusconi kneeling by Draghi to solve the gas emergency after having him shot in Parliament is simply pathetic, no less than the nostalgic gasps of the populist wing of the Democratic Party towards the Five Stars
In the center-right, only Forza Italia underlines the need to complete the reforms indicated in the Pnrr - The League asks for changes and rejects the competition law
Marco Bentivogli, spearhead of reformism and former leader of the metalworkers of the Cisl, is a candidate for the Senate with the Democratic Party which, however, also lines up Camusso and Furlan, madame of retro unionism
Work, rights and the environment are the three cornerstones of the new Democratic Party program in view of the September 25 elections. Particular attention is also paid to the school
The economist's name will be present both in the single-member and in the proportional lists - Cottarelli: "We need progressive taxation and not a flat tax that has nothing progressive"
The right has made the flat tax one of its flagships for the electoral campaign, even if the proposals of Lega and Forza Italia are different. But the real doubts are: the flat tax is socially just and…
Carlo Calenda, annoyed by Letta's agreements with Bonelli and Fratoianni, breaks the electoral alliance with the Democratic Party and shakes up the political scenarios of the centre-left - For now, Calenda, who will not be followed by +Europe, decides to go alone to vote...
The Democratic Party is contemplating nominating Susanna Camusso for Milan, a controversial former general secretary of the CGIL, but in addition to being a provocation to Calenda, the move would be a sensational boomerang for Letta's party: for these reasons
Renzi: "We cannot ally with those who voted against Draghi" - Conte: "Good luck to the new crowd" - Tajani: "Action throws off the mask: it is the fifth column of the Democratic Party"
After weeks of back and forth, the white smoke arrives: 70% of the candidates for the dem, 30% for Action-More Europe, no to divisive candidates in single-member constituencies
The Democratic Party effectively rejects Calenda's requests on the stop to divisive candidates and on the clarity of the programs and the electoral marriage, barring twists, moves away
Decisive meeting today between Letta and Calenda on the perimeter of the center-left breakfast: the leader of Action must decide whether to join or go alone to the vote, as Renzi has already announced, who dreams of the third pole precisely with Calenda
The resistance of the left wing of the Democratic Party to an agreement with Renzi, who paved the way for the Draghi government and then loyally supported it to the last, is paradoxical. But in doing so, the left, beyond electoral arithmetic, risks…
The embrace until the end with the grillini and the renunciation of fighting for a proportional electoral law were two unforgivable mistakes of the Democratic Party - Now, to avoid giving Italy to the right, an electoral agreement with the Center is essential…
Whoever signed the end of the Draghi government made Putin smile but did incalculable damage to Italy and its international reputation, which we hope the voters will remember in the next vote
In a few hours we will find out if Mario Draghi will continue on the road to resignation or decide to rethink it for the good of the country but optimism about his stay at Palazzo Chigi is growing: naturally on his terms
24 hours after Draghi's resignation, chaos is growing in the majority - M5S evaluates the withdrawal of 5 ministers but splits - The EU accuses Putin of destabilizing European governments. Renzi's pro-Draghi petition
INTERVIEW WITH BRUNO TABACCI, Undersecretary of the Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Center - "the vote of 26 June shows that the country does not appreciate the ambiguities of the right and trusts more in the seriousness of the Draghi government"…
