Pd, flop cards. Bersani: “Only voters?’s No longer a party.” Renzi … – The Republic

Pd, flop cards. Bersani: "Only voters?'s No longer a party." Renzi … – The Republic

ROME – A shock from the first data from the Republic of membership early today, what is going through the Democratic Party. In a year, at this point of the campaign, are lost 400 thousand subscribers. A worrying sign that after the flop of the voters in the primaries in Emilia Romagna for the selection of the candidate for President of the Region. “It would be nice not to disseminate data in case,” he writes on Twitter piqued the deputy secretary Lorenzo Guerini . But the reaction of the former secretary Pier Luigi Bersani is tough: “A party that only voters and no longer subscribers, is no longer a party. The Statute says that the Democratic Party is a party ‘to members and voters’. course – says Bersani – if only to become a party to the voters become something else … One political space and not a political entity. But we are not in this and – sure – do not end there. ” But in the evening the premier Matteo Renzi responds to hard-nosed, “The Democratic Party in recent months has a group of people who say that since there is the answering Renzi the Democratic Party loses members. I would like to point out that the Democratic Party has taken this’ year 40.8 per cent, more of the sixteen points in the last election. has made three regional elections: won all three. Won in 73 per cent of Italian municipalities. certainly regret not having won in 100 percent .. ., but there is that thing called democracy .. “. Then he throws a poisoned arrow at those who preceded him to the secretariat. “Instead of making controversy about the members – he says – we should speak of” fiscal troubles “had by the Democratic Party. We had a little ‘troubles in the financial statements of the party … But since we are serious people wash their dirty linen at home: we tidied up the budget, without shedding. “

But the theme, of course, generated controversy. For Alfredo D’Actor you have to stop for a moment and reflect on the future of the party otherwise you risk ending up “to become a mere electoral space, in which the fate of the community are reduced to the fate of the leader of the moment” . Renzi, for D’Actor, has its own responsibilities on the collapse of the cards: “In recent months there has exacerbated a process by which the member has the feeling of not count for nothing, there is no discussion on the basis that precedes the choice of leadership. ” Along the same lines Stefano Fassina theme that the transformation of the party in an election committee. “We need to immediately convene a meeting of national coordinators of the circle and put in the yard a meeting of the party to put his hand to the structure and organization”, proposes Fassina.

But the Democratic Party denies that these data are a sign of crisis. “Sorry to anyone, based on projections made up, open a needless controversy,” he writes in a statement the deputy party secretary and responsible organization Lorenzo Guerini, adding that the goal “is to exceed 300 thousand subscribers at year-end, true.” Estimated that in any case would be significantly lower than last year, when the pieces of the Democratic Party had 539,354 (one level certainly favored by the congressional deadline) and also much lower than the average of previous years, always around 500 thousand subscribers. “The real theme of our comparison – says the Deputy Secretary – should not affect the number of members, but the opening of these registered voters of the primaries.”

The Democratic Party, however, in a note explains that ” the membership began on April 25, 2014, the cards have been dealt from the month of June and end on 31 December 2014 At the moment the figures on members who come from the territories are still considerably higher than the reported data. ” For the party the decline is due to the commitment of the clubs for the European election campaign that has overshadowed the ordinary business: “The results have proved us right.”

But for Goofy Civat the problem is there and needs to be addressed: “I’m not wanting the split, but the conduct of Renzi that risk alienating parts of the party as shown by the data of membership.’s attitude seems to premier look elsewhere rather than to our camp. ”

“There’s just a little ‘late,” says the regional secretary of the Democratic Party Tuscan Dario Parrini , who adds: “We started in May because the delivery of the cards with the chip to our members was late. ” Regarding Tuscany “we have no reason for alarm. Intensify the work in the coming months, to get to the end of the year with a budget of registered positive.”

Even more optimistic, the regional secretary Emilia, Giorgio Sagrini : “If there is a collapse in membership of the Democrats Emilia Romagna seems immune. We live in a time of difficulty for policy and for parties but this year we did not encounter any particular problems . Indeed – he adds – it is worth noting that new members are more than 1,800 in 2014. And recovered, or those who for some reason had not remade the card in the past years and have returned to it, are 2,100. sign of a renewed commitment and interest in the activities of the Democratic Party. “

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