Massimo D’Alema knocked on the door of the Democratic Party, but no one opened. On the contrary. His words provoked “profound irritation” to the Nazarene, both because he defined the period in which Matteo Renzi was at the helm of the demos a “disease”, and because his intervention was considered a straight-leg entry into the path of rapprochement between the Democratic Party and Article One, the formation that brings together those who – like Pier Luigi Bersani and Roberto Speranza – left the party in the Renzian era.
Letta’s reply
«Since it was born 14 years ago – Enrico Letta retorted on Twitter – the Democratic Party is the only big house of Italian democrats and progressives. I am proud to be its pro tempore secretary and to carry on this story in the interest of Italy. No disease and therefore no cure. Only passion and commitment ».
The hypothesis is part of the Pd
The reflections made during the toast via Zoom of Articolo Uno at the end of the year suggest a return of D’Alema – and of the company – to the Democratic Party. For D’Alema, given that the Democratic Party is now cured of Renzian’s “terrible disease”, “a recomposition” between Article One and the Nazarene “appears necessary”. In truth, the process is already underway with the Agora, the path of openness and confrontation initiated by Letta and to which Article One immediately joined. But the sewing work is complex. The formula for a possible reunion is to be defined. And, above all, the intent is to present the project as the result of a path from below and not as the decision of this or that group of leaders (more or less still in the saddle).
The swell between the dem
«D’Alema is part of the Democratic Party and talks about diseases? The conditions are in place for a constituent congress ”, Senator Pd Andrea Marcucci immediately tweeted. While the coordinator of the reformist Base (the dem current formed by the former Renzians) Alessandro Alfieri, closed the prospect of a return of D’Alema, defining his words as “rough”: “If these are the conditions for reasoning about future evolutions of the Pd – he wrote – for us the question simply does not exist “.
Renzi’s counter-offensive
In short, the fire was beginning to smolder and not too much under the ashes. But he was suffocated by Letta’s intervention. His tweet was immediately relaunched by one of the leaders of Base Riformista, Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini who, for the avoidance of doubt, also added: «Well read. We look to the future and to things to do ». The intervention of the Pd secretary did not, however, serve to extinguish the controversy with IV, who used D’Alema’s statements to attack also – and above all – the dem. “D’Alema – wrote Matteo Renzi – is part of the Democratic Party saying that those who led him to 40%, to make civil unions, to have the only government with gender equality, to create more than a million jobs work is a sick person. These are words that speak for themselves. A thought for those who are really sick, perhaps in a hospital bed. And a hug to those who dreamed of the party of the reformists and find themselves in the party of the Dalemians ».