In view of the regional elections, which will be held in the autumn of 2025 at the latest but which the investigation into Toti could bring forward by a year, the Genoese secretary of the Democratic Party Simone D’Angelo returns to talk about primaries, in a context where the former minister Andrea Orlando has long given signs of willingness to run for the presidency of the Region.
In an interview with Matteo Macor of Republicon the specific topic D’Angelo begins: “Today we would need more than the primaries of ideas, also useful to demonstrate to ourselves that discussions on perimeters and coalitions are overcome by those who are ready to unite for an alternative. I think there is a need to give strength to a bottom-up path of participation that leads parties and voters to decide together the priorities of the field that will present itself in the elections. And certifying the work with a popular passage is the best way to generate cohesion, and the mobilization that often occurs evokes”.
The word “primaries”, in the Democratic Party, evokes the scenario of 2015, when after the vote of 55 thousand people Raffaella Paita overtook Sergio Cofferati, with 28,916 votes (53.1%) against the 24,827 (45.6%) of Sergio Cofferati and 687 by Massimiliano Tovo, independent candidate (1.2%). An outcome contested by Cofferati, with consequent appeal to the guarantee panel and the annulment of the vote in 13 seats, a decision insufficient to modify the response. The end is known. Now D’Angelo observes: “The shared launch of a process to certify the priorities of the political agenda of change would also be a way to mend the laceration of 2015. The primaries of that time sanctioned a rupture that the ruling group of the Democratic Party painfully also transferred to his electorate, today there are all the conditions to do the opposite work. It could be valid both for the issues to which political action is dedicated and, why not, at the end of a journey of this nature, also for. the candidate”.
A scenario that must take into account the availability already shown by Orlando. “Those like Orlando who have given us their availability – observes D’Angelo – have done so by expressing the conviction that in the process of reconstructing the dialogue between politics and citizenship the strength and legitimacy of each candidacy will be found. Much more than they could give party leaders. I also hear his appeal to avoid the temptation to transform the results at the European elections into an invitation to the self-sufficiency of the party and politics: this is not the case, the field must be broadened as much as possible”.
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