Last rush for the choice of the Italian Democratic Party's leadership
Tomorrow, in the frame of the luxurious Marrion Park Hotel, it will begin in Rome the National Congress of the Italian Democratic Party, the second step to the primary elections scheduled for October 25th. After the district congresses, Pier Luigi Bersani, former minister in Prodi’s government (2006-2008), leads the competition with 55,13% and more than 250,000 votes: he is followed by Dario Franceschini (36,95%), the party’s Secretary, and Ignazio Marino (7,92%), well-known surgeon and Senator.
The policy of the two strongest candidates are very different: Bersani claims a better definition of the party’s principles without forgetting the individual history of each group - the PD was founded just two years ago as a merger of various left-wing and centrist parties -, in the meantime Franceschini is trying to gain consents from the young generations.
Each of them seems so far from the feeling of Italians: Bersani is still seen as too much involved in the catastrophic policy of the last centre-left governments by most of the people, the campaign of Dario Franceschini, instead, appears abstract, raving and without a clear guideline: an example, the posters hanged on the wall of buildings in Rome, claiming for a party only with people born after 1989, that means less than 3% of the Italian population allowed to vote.
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