Rome, March 27, 2021 – The internal sparks do not stop in the Pd house: this time it is staged clash between Marianna Madia and Debora Serracchiani, both candidates dem group leader in the House (the vote is scheduled for next Tuesday). The background is Enrico Letta’s request to have two women at the top of the party, starting with the groups. A request that led Simona Malpezzi to replace Andrea Marcucci in the Senate and who will bring one between Debora Serracchiani and Marianna Madia to the Chamber.
Meanwhile, the new secretary Enrico Letta he met via zoom the Florentine dem circles, and without getting involved in the dispute (perhaps even ignoring it) he explained the reasons for his return – “We have hit rock bottom … I’m back because if I have the possibility to prevent all this from ending I have to do it “- throwing there also a happy joke:” After 7 years I feel like the mother of the movie ‘Goobye Lenin’. Many treat me like her, the one who brought out the gherkins … So they told me that circles don’t exist more”.
Exchange of letters between Madia, Serracchiani and Delrio
But let’s go back to the Madia-Serracchiani ‘war’ to contend for the seat of Graziano Delrio, brought up in turn. It was the circus that started Madia, who accused Delrio before asking her to get involved and then becoming a “promoter of one of the two candidates, transforming the free and transparent confrontation she had launched into a co-optation in disguise“. In short, according to Madia, Debora Serracchiani is the” predestined “.
At this point, the former president of Friuli Venezia Giulia could not help but reply: “I cannot believe that he intends to refer to me as a co-optable person and therefore, I should assume, not autonomous. No, autonomy was the key to my story personal and political “, wrote Serracchiani. And Delrio also entered the e-mail agone:” I did not invite anyone to apply – he says – I did not negotiate “.
Clash in the Democratic Party: the background
In fact the hypothesis that Debora Serracchiani was favored it had circulated in the dem environments, so much so that someone was almost waiting for a step back from the Madia, to avoid the count and reach unanimity, as happened in the Senate with Simona Malpezzi. So Madia’s open letter, in which he reconstructs the accusations and background, was a bit of a surprise.
“It would be absolutely legitimate to” co-opt the new group leader “in the light of the sun – he wrote – Debora is an authoritative person. But, I repeat, it is a question of co-optation in disguise. This distance between form and substance is not healthy: do not follow what let’s say our behavior I think is one of the causes of why we are no longer able to express the expansive vocation of our party. human displeasure for what happened “.
Delrio denied the reconstruction of the sideboard: “I believe that I do not deserve accusations of non-transparent maneuvers or of power, since I wanted to give up that power by immediately leaving my position. Certain words they hurt me so much because they do not correspond to reality and because they come from a person I have always respected. I believe and hope that it is a question of bitterness. ”
In short, an all against all: “Let’s face it without mortgages and without afterthoughts – was the final invitation of Serracchiani – knowing that each one represents herself and that each colleague of the group will decide in full freedom. I know our colleagues, whom I have seen working in the classroom and on committees over the years, with passion and responsibility, and I am sure that no one would be imposed on top-down candidates.
Letta and the women
In Letta’s speech to the circles, her battle on the gender equality in the party: “In the last 10 years – he recalled – the Democratic Party has done so 3 congresses with 9 secretary candidates, 9 males. It is no coincidence, this is enough, we have not managed in 10 years to come up with even a losing candidate for the party secretariat, and this is a gigantic problem. And since the question of groups does not concern others, a coalition, but ours, a choice has been made in the Senate, it will be made in the House on Tuesday. I think this is radical behavior, noticing that there is something wrong and fixing it “.
On women, he urged “we must take a big step forward, I am doing it, as far as I can, in the political system, but not only the political system is male, the directors of the most important newspapers are all male, we do not value female competence “.
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