The Stability Pact and the unforgivable blunders of the Democratic Party, which denies Gentiloni, and of the League, which disavows Giorgetti

After yesterday's approval by a large majority of European Parliament, the new Stability pact it will come into force from mid-year with more realistic and more flexible rules on public debt and deficits. We can always do better, certainly, but the new Pact is a good compromise. On a political level, however, theItaly makes a terrible impression, despite the fact that the father of the new Stability Pact was the Eurocommissioner of Pd extraction Paolo Gentiloni and despite the Northern League Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti has honestly done his part. There were only four Italian parliamentarians who voted in favor of the new Pact, while all our political forces shamefully abstained, except the Five stars who voted against. But what is most striking - in addition naturally to the attitude of Prime Minister Meloni's party which initially approved the new Pact and which yesterday shirked - were the abstentions of the Pd and Alloy who blatantly denied the actions of Gentiloni on the one hand and Giorgetti on the other. It is understandable that the League struggled to approve the new Pact and distance itself from the abstentionist line of the entire government majority, even if Giorgetti's purely electoral disavowal is nothing more than a farce. But the worst failure is that of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein. Once upon a time the Democratic Party (and before it the PCI) was a party of struggle and government, a popular and national party: today it is only the party of confusion. A confusion that not only leads him to deny Gentiloni's work, appreciated by all the main European political families, but also to distance himself from the Socialist group, of which the PD itself is part. At this point it is no longer clear what the true identity of the Democratic Party is which, for a handful of votes, is ready to sell off its original reformist soul, increasingly obscured by maximalist impulses and the unfortunate pursuit of the Five Star Movement. Who knows what a great pro-European like the former President of the Republic would have said Giorgio Napolitano, which was rightly remembered yesterday in an interesting conference in Palermo. But, above all, who knows what the voters who every day struggle more and more to understand what the Democratic Party is today will say in June.