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Elly Schlein in Naples speaks of a “no” from the Democratic Party “with a single strong voice” to differentiated autonomy, but in Naples the voice that Vincenzo De Luca sends makes even more noise. Campania has been the real grain of the dem secretary for months. In the Quartieri Spagnoli Schlein, after an obligatory stop at the Maradona mural, closes the two days organized by the dem with the cry of ‘one and indivisible’ and attacks Giorgia Meloni and her government. The bill wanted by the executive, “wants to divide a country that needs to be mended”, reiterates the leader who provokes her opponents and tries to divide the majority. Not only autonomy, however. The dem secretary reiterates the line also with regard to reforms, denouncing “the pact of power” signed by the government “with a horrid barter”: presidentialism for the Calderoli bill.

The controversies, however, overwhelm the Pd itself. The absence of Vincenzo De Luca and his son Piero from the Neapolitan two-day event weighs heavily. The distance between the two and the secretary is linked to the debate on the possible third term of the Governor of Campania and the choice not to confirm his son as the vice-presidency of the group in Montecitorio. Stefano Bonaccini and Antonio Decaro try to call everyone to unity: “I hope that what may have appeared as differences in recent weeks can be reconciled as soon as possible, because we need De Luca – the dem president and governor of the Emilia Romagna – You can have different ideas but you have to look for unity in the name of things to do, to be tonic and beat the right”.

“Unfortunately I didn’t see the whole party here today, so I feel like making an appeal to everyone to overcome internal divisions – echoes the president of Anci and mayor of Bari – De Luca’s absence is a burden and we cannot pretend it doesn’t exist. The absence exists and must be overcome”. Schlein chooses to gloss over the subject, even if the ‘firefighters’ – such as the organization manager dem Igor Taruffi – are at work. “Unity – the leader simply says – is a value above all when it is accompanied by the coherence of a vision and of the battles we wage together”.

Migration flows from Tunisia: the president of the EU commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, on a mission together with the premier Giorgia Meloni, has put 150 million euros on the plate to curb the landings. Is the government’s action in line with the voting intentions? Yes, according to the data emerging from the Emg-Different survey, illustrated by the director Fabrizio Masia, during the morning talk on Rai3 “Agorà”, Monday 12 June. The center-right remains stable: Fratelli d’Italia at 27.5 from 27.8%, still above the vote of September 2022. The Lega is doing well in double figures at 10% and Forza Italia which rises to 7.4%. In the centre-left in difficulty, the Pd is back below 20%, i.e. 19.9% ​​(-0.4). The 5 Star Movement remains at 15.2%. In the voting intentions of the interviewees, the approval rating in +Europe increased, reaching 3.4%. Action and Italia Viva, separately, both recorded 3.2%. Luigi De Magistris’ Unione Popolare (1.7%) is also growing.

As for trust in leaders, nothing seems to affect that in Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at 45%, even if Mario Draghi is always the most loved with 51 preferences. Elly Schlein instead suffers a blow. The secretary of the Democratic Party loses 2 points: from 30 to 28%. Well Luca Zaia 38%, Matteo Salvini and Giuseppe Conte at 34% and Silvio Berlusconi at 31%. Rear lights Carlo Calenda (20%) and Matteo Renzi at 18.

A meager consolation for Elly Schlein, the one expressed during Cartabianca, on Rai3. “We have lost the administrations, especially the ballots but we have not lost alone. The Democratic Party is committed to building a credible alternative without presumption of self-sufficiency…”, says the secretary of the Democratic Party. Work on the alternative? “We will continue to do so. The alternative forces to the right have a responsibility to work together,” Schlein said. In short, the construction site is reopening with the 5-star Movement, which in the latest polls has resumed gnawing at the consensus quotas for the dem.

Among the various opposition forces “there are many points in common, it takes time, if we wait to all like each other it is difficult. But we continue in the effort to be united. I am available, if we want to meet and give each other a appointment, let’s meet to understand on which points we can unite efforts in the differences”, is the appeal of Schlein, guest of Bianca Berlinguer.

For the rest, the dem secretary shoots zero on the government and the premier Giorgia Meloni: Let’s not fall into the trap of the right because victimhood was Giorgia Meloni’s political figure and today it has led him to be almost state victimhood. I don’t understand why this government takes it out on anyone who disagrees by hitting intellectuals and opposition parties”. The reference is to the dispute suffered by Minister Roccella at the Turin Book Fair and to the words addressed by the prime minister to the secretary of the Democratic Party, who had spoken of a problem government with dissent. “It is the mystification that the right has done, I said that those are not our methods”, replies Schlein. It is a pity in Roccella’s case that the freedom of dissent has turned into a de facto censorship.