ROMA – In the Democratic Party is missing the base. The members, activists, those who were autographing the plastic card from the secretary and executives to the Unity party. The voters there are, many, reaching the record figure of 40.8 per cent of Europe. The cards no longer. The alarm was triggered after the flop of turnout in the primaries of Emilia Romagna, the historic red region: only 58,000 voters to the gazebo. But the figure did not surprise those who know the secret numbers of the Nazarene, we are below the level of 100 thousand subscribers throughout Italy, 5 times less than in 2013 when the members were 539,354. In the corridors, perhaps because of the panic, there were rumors even more catastrophic. Someone speaks of 60,000 members. That would mean little more than a militant of 10 he renewed his faith in the Democratic Party. In other words: the backbone of the Democratic Party no longer exists.
The painting, region by region, it has some holes absolute blacks. The membership has hardly started in Sicily, Basilicata, Molise, Sardinia, Puglia. And there are only three months to the end of the year. In Campania idem. In 2013, Naples and other provinces numbered 70,000 members. Today the tiles, they say, can be calculated in the hundreds, even thousands. Someone in the capital, someone else to Salerno, where the activism of the eternal mayor Vincenzo De Luca takes a piece. End. The circles are sadly deserted even in the neighborhoods of the percentages Bulgarian Valenzi and Bassolino: Bridges, Barra, San Giovanni. It was very crowded the Foundry instead of ideas, an initiative organized last weekend by MEP Pina Picierno to launch his candidacy for the region. But in that case did not appear a single symbol of the Democratic Party. Even small.
The genetic mutation of the party was born that way. We are open to society, but the circles (7200 in Italy, 89 abroad) languish and militancy disappears. A model on the right know well, the descent into the field of Berlusconi. But the other part is still a shock. The “base” has been the history and memory of the left, as recounted the unforgettable documentary Nanni Moretti’s The Thing (1990). Not any more. It is the other face of the effect Renzi. The charismatic leader, active, present on all media including social, capable of leading the Democrats to the record of 41 per cent as a counter the weakness of the structure. The company has many customers but only one poliforme driver. And the tiles collapse.
In Turin and province were 10,000 students enrolled last year, are now just 3000 In Venice 5500 people participated in the activities of the sections in 2013, fell to 2,000 in 2014, Umbria has gone from 14,000 members a little less than half, even if the estimates are very tentative. If all goes well, they say to Perugia, you will touch the milestone of 10,000 on December 1, 40 per cent. They also suffer from the places of the hard core, where the left never lost subscribers.
Other times, of course. And the crisis of “vocations” to the left is not new last year. In the end, the party is an idea of liquid Walter Veltroni, dated 2007, now 7 years ago. But the figure of 100,000 makes the same impression. Matteo Renzi has a party model is completely different from the past. The Foundry of ideas is nothing more than the follower’s southern Leopolda, the appointment of renziani in Florence, even the strictly emptied by the symbols of the Democratic Party. Also this year, the Prime Minister will respond to the manifestation of the trade unions on Article 18 of the Leopolda rather than a staid conference on labor license plate Democratic Party. The identification President of the Council Secretary-port then the first to the second obscure. The temporary head centralizes on self care and responsibility while the machine goes decidedly partisan in the second floor. If the collapse of members is not wanted, it is then put into the account, the natural development of a different idea of political representation, perhaps more to the pace of the story. If anything, opponents point out: “There is no longer the party, but no party discipline.” Or: “If those who want to discuss is always an owl or a rosicone, clubs are empty.” I renziani argue: “But the polls are full” and witness the 11 million 200 thousand votes of Europe.
The primaries in Emilia, the thud of membership, however, are the symptoms of a problem, which involves identity and role of the Democratic Party, the party in general. All the more so when the crisis of militancy is accompanied by the progressive death of public financing. The Democratic Party will receive 12.8 million in 2014. In 2011 there were 60 crates so they are in pain. Yesterday, the treasurer Francesco Bonifazi sent an email to all MPs north. Subject: “Dinner of the North”. Everyone must bring 5 entrepreneurs, who will pay 1000 Euros per head, at an event held in November. Where the star will obviously Renzi. Objective: To collect 1 million. It’s called fundraising, the model is the USA, Obama. The destruction is also the system, not just the people.
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