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Puglia and Calabria farce

Tonino Perna *

For the conditions with which they were winning Vendola has a value that goes beyond the region of Puglia.

First, it confirms that the instrument of "primary", when used correctly, has increased democratic participation. Nearly two hundred thousand people went to vote against the 80,000 of the primaries of 2005. No coincidence that Mr Boccia, who was defeated for the second time (perhaps due to an unfortunate last name?) Has been declared, however, that democracy has won in Puglia.
Second Vendola's victory has a value compared to the national political strategies of the center. It shows, in fact, it is possible to imagine a
center presenting himself to voters on programs and "delivery" convincing, with a representative of the radical left, or simply the left, who is not seeking to blend, but is proud of the values \u200b\u200band history of the Italian left. All the opposite of that policy that led the former Communist Party to keep changing skin - from the PDS to the Democratic Party Ds - chasing a mythical center, as is known, is a medium of amorphous and not the wisdom of Aristotle.

Voters have shown, especially in recent years, to prefer the original to the photocopy, but the leaders of the Democratic Party does not seem to be noticed. The chase at all costs UDC is the last act of a long-term political strategy that led to this party to disperse a wealth of hopes and expectations, to create an abyss between the leaders and the base, to lose all signs of radical cultural and moral. One goal: winning at all costs. Even if it means sacrificing a successful experience as the Regional Government of Puglia where there were the advisors targati Pd, and a respected and charismatic leader Vendola.

This political cynicism, which in Puglia was condemned and defeated by all the people of the left - including a good number of members to the Democratic Party - has inflicted serious damage in other regions, starting from the Calabria region.

Here the word "primary" has become unspeakable. Participatory democracy, whose "primary" are one tool, has become a farce worthy of the best works of Pirandello. Convened since November last year, with a continuous movement of data, with an uncertainty up to election day, and then miserably to give way to undo an unsuccessful negotiations with the UDC. Who made this suicidal tactic, who gave a slap in the face to voters, should not resign and change professions? Even in Calabria voters had participated in mass of Pd in \u200b\u200bthe primaries of the party over and above the one hundred and forty thousand votes cast, but no one has raised his voice to remember.

And what happened to so-called radical left in Calabria, which is disappearance from the political scene also waiting for Godot's son-Casino arrived to my appointment? Possible that there is no longer a political force that points to the left foot on the programs, assets and bankruptcy alternatives to this model of society, which can not be sick in front of candidates or parties that have investigated only a summation of interest?

A journalist friend who lives in Stockholm, and was in the Christmas holidays in our country, I phoned to ask how they were going to finish the primaries.

With embarrassment I told him that were rejected at the last second.

Surprised I asked, and that candidate who had put next to his photo giant says "Free at last to choose," he rebelled, resigned, protested? No, I said, has become a Bronze Statues. Already, he said, yours is the land of his bronzes.

What then, I wanted to say, it also rhymes with the Roman letter word: "str ...."

* Professor University of Messina