We won. He won the center-left and the Democratic Party led by Elly Schlein. He won in the European elections, because despite the initial imbalance we recovered numerically significant votes unlike the prime minister’s party which loses despite remaining at the top. Elly won and the women with her won just as we had predicted or rather as it should be. Because the famous difference between female and feminist leadership is all here, in claiming the importance of being there with one’s own body and even one’s own endings.
Faced with a Prime Minister who claims to be the president, who testifies with her words and actions that it is fine to be a woman, a Christian and a mother but one must be there to be among the elected, to be able to take advantage of those privileges not granted to all, to be able to afford separation from their partner, a private welfare system like the entire public health system that Meloni is promoting, there is one that says that glass ceilings break together, with the strength of women who can to be everything, women but also trans, women but also not biological mothers, women but also Muslim, Buddhist, atheist, agnostic and above all feminist. That is, believing that the entire society benefits from the strength of a collective story that deconstructs stereotypes.
And with Elly at the helm, women achieve extraordinary results, in terms of preferences in the European elections (remember the adage that her candidacy would take away space for women? False) and also among city councilors up to mayors and municipal presidents. In Bari, an excellent mayor wins alongside an all-female team of municipal presidents, 8 women, for the first time. Like all the cities that will have a mayor for the first time, from Florence to Prato, from Perugia to Campobasso, from Bergamo to Avellino.
Let’s be clear, it’s only the beginning, all the problems and battles remain to obtain rights that are increasingly denied, to women and not only, because this is what the history of our struggles teaches us, we start from ourselves but it’s always for everyone.
This is why Giorgia Meloni is in crisis, for the European appointments and for not having yet said anything about the investigations concerning her party and the racist and anti-Semitic attacks that cross it, because her story as a privileged woman at the head of a party that must covering and hiding in order to still appear credible at the tables with the world’s greats does not hold up. Because if you trivially cut public health and think that a one-off bonus for the children they have is enough for women, you are simply out of touch with the world and history and sooner or later people will realize it.
We won on this ground more than on the purely electoral one and we must work on this in the coming months, because, as I have always said and will always say, the power of the secretary is in itself a value, but alongside this we must now give voice and legs to a party that becomes more and more an open game, for women and for society as a whole. We can only improve. Adelante.
