Pd, the figure of Berlinguer also becomes divisive: revolt in the Catholic area
Il Pd divides once again, this time the secretary’s initiative ends up in the crosshairs Schlein to have Enrico’s face put on Berlinguer on the dem cards for the 2024. Her face (or rather: just her eyes, smiling) will appear on the card and will be accompanied – reports Il Messaggero – by a phrase from his last rallythat of Verona in 1984, during which the leader of the PCI suffered the illness that would cause him to pass away a few days later: “Street by street, house by house“. An imperative for the secretary. With the aim, in the June polls, of consolidating herself as the main opposition force. Shortening the distance from Giorgia Melons and lengthening those from Giuseppe Conteeven without setting minimum “bars” for success.
What la choice to focus on Berlinguer divided the party and above all the more Catholic rib of the dems protesting the secretary’s decision to focus on the leader of the PCI. Pierluigi Chestnuts, last secretary of the Italian People’s Party and founder of the Democratic Party, lets off steam. “I’m sure – says Castagnetti to Il Giornale – that next year there will be another photo on the cardotherwise Pd is a dead project. I don’t doubt the strength of Berlinguer’s thought and profile. But the Democratic Party is not a continuation of the PCI. We are something else and we cannot accept it. In 2007 the Democratic Party was born to represent something new in the Italian political landscape. It was the overcoming two cultures, not the prevalence of one over the other. We are not the PCI.”