February 19, 2009, Peter Gomez
Detectors
No one can say whether the party Democrats will still exist once the mark of next European elections. After reading the words used Wednesday by Walter Veltroni, in his farewell speech, one thing is clear, however. Former Secretary did not understand why millions of people have stopped voting for his party. She did not understand or, perhaps, like other leaders of the Democratic Party, did not pretend to understand. The worm that is eroding the political party in fact has a precise name: credibility. The Democratic Party loses because it is not credible. It is not a problem of ideas or projects. It is rather a question of people and behavior.
The continuous succession of scandals, the resignations of those who missed it failed as a public administrator (see Campania), the decision not to escape the logic of appointments partitocratiche in Rai, in the authority and any other body, ended up taking away from the center-left voters also the last illusions. Gradually the myth of difference, diversity from the center-right came to fall.
This is necessary to point out that, paradoxically, the Democratic Party was in crisis just two years before being born. He had begun to die on the eve of the 2006 elections when it was published (from "Il Giornale") a famous phone call between Piero Fassino and the big boss of Unipol, Giovanni Consorte, in which the then Secretary of Ds said, "We are owners of a bank . It was from that moment on that Silvio Berlusconi has been able to begin to repeat "they too are equal" being increasingly believed. Day after day, in fact, we thought the news pages (often black) of the newspapers to prove him right. A
a situation like the center-left before, and then the Democratic Party, he could (and should) react with strong gestures and symbolic of . Instead, nothing happened. The management team has remained static. Veltroni has been silent. Or talked too little. And the Democratic Party if they are gone so the best. Voters.
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