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PD and Piedmont: analysis of a defeat

few days after the regional elections, my friend's blog Roads of France and I have started a conversation on the outcome of the consultation in Piedmont, reasoning the outcome of a bitter defeat, even in light of what my friend noted about the case he knew best, Lazio. You can find his post and its discussion here.

the interest of the story, I have gained an article find that below and that was also published on the site www.imille.org ( this is the link to post ) , which is the blog of reference of the Democratic Party led by Ivan and Scalfarotto Sofri jr.

look forward to know what you think!

outside Piedmont, probably, the only known the TAV in Val di Susa and the abortion pill. But Mercedes Bresso, who presided for the region for five years, was much more . It 'was the chairman of internationalization, the Euroregion, Piedmont open to the world, but also the president who defied Moretti and FS to obtain services for rail transport more efficient by opening an international tender without precedent in Italy. Still, the latest regional voters viejo Piemunt the preferred the invader Cota, a Milanese who passes himself off from Novara. Why? We try to find some weaknesses of the electoral campaign of the Democratic Party in Piedmont, not trying to blame Grillo ...:

1. Torinocentrismo : La Bresse, also a former chairman of the regional capital of the province, won hands down in Turin: +9.90 %, still less when, five years ago struck Ghigo. Then, in the other provinces, nothing in Alexandria -1.81%, -9.06% Asti, Biella (VAT registration area to not bad) -11.45% -13.81% in Vercelli, Verbania-Cusio -Ossola -15.62% -15.72% Cuneo (province "rural"), Novara -15.87. Help .

In practice, Bresso only wins in Turin, with men and women in Turin (training) and without talking to the people of the valleys and of VAT.

2. The PD does not speak to the people : it seems to shoot the red cross, but it is. Look at the above data: PD the missing where there is no militant to convince the electorate (that's not Turin) to vote . It prefers the League, with its reassuring that populism and triples (!) The vote in Piedmont. Therefore the PD must fall to the League's populism? Certainly not, but at least try to going to explain data in hand, to small entrepreneurs of the Biella textile that will not be the League's fiscal federalism in green sauce to lower the tax burden on the territory would fattoguadagnare some votes. And then the old constituency no longer exists in Turin South (Mirafiori, almost all families of southern origin, for the uninitiated), the League grows a bit 'as in Sesto San Giovanni. If it continues the flag with the sun Celtic soon invade the town and the province of Turin.
3. The alliance with the UDC : it has certainly paid less than due. Probably the casiniani are committed to knowing little risk of making a lot of votes to the list rather than to their Bresso, but the PD still trust the Democrats to say that ... There is a local bigwig's Party - the "pro-life" Deodato Scanderebech (I swear that the name is true) - has shifted from the party just because the alliance with the Bresso, carrying a basin of votes not bad to Cota. And, incidentally, Scanderebech this is one of those who make policy in the markets, in deprived areas such as Porta Palazzo in Turin and Borgo Dora, where the Italians feel discriminated against immigrants: is paradoxical, I know, but it is so .

And these are only three points for analysis of the defeat. Here we need to analyze another question: why the PD national (or rather, Italian, as we say here in Aosta) has consistently ignored the Piedmont and its leaders? you think, that whatever came down from the north a Penati to Rome to save both ways? Or that the leader should always always always come from the Emilia-Romagna? In Piedmont, there are two of the most important - about - winning the Democratic Party: Mercedes Bresso , so now all that remains is the Committee of the Regions, and Sergio Chiamparino , due almost as mayor of Turin. Now, it will be a coincidence, but the first proposal for PD "federal" was just from Chiamparino that, moreover, has revived not long ago. Chiamparino, as well as Bresso pre-election campaign, is a left-wing politician (former communist) but understands the needs of a north that is inevitably changed and to which the largest party of the Italian left can not adapt. Pena style blows the last regional elections.