The Santori sardine becomes organic for the Democratic Party

Today Mattia Santori will be a pleasure-seeker: the “toxic brand” of the Democratic Party, that party in which the headquarters with lots of tents in favor of cameras, officially becomes “his” brand. For heaven’s sake, he was a candidate as an “independent”, but it is a definition that means all or nothing: why or not you believe in the party, and then autonomy is there only as a sardine-lark; or it’s a half fake, and you’re really doing a little thought about climbing the dem.

Santori the most voted in the Pd

The fact is that the sardines do finally the big leap that they had denied for a long time. Do you remember? Since that November of 2019 when the movement came to life to counter the Northern League’s advance in Emilia Romagna, the little fishes have changed. Of the three initial leaders, only one remained politically exposed. From the sea of the squares (in Bologna, in Piazza San Giovanni, in Bibbiano) they switched to that of social media, causes pandemic. Then they landed on the electoral roll. And finally on the benches of the municipal councils, at least in Palazzo d’Accursio. If before they had kept “distant” from the parties, now they have landed “in the heart” of the palaces of power. And it is no small thing. You want to say that you were not thinking of a candidacy, that the movement was only an instrument of pressure, an aggregator of consensus against the Northern League’s cavalcade. The sardine in chief entered the Democratic Party like a steamroller: when 278 sections were scrutinized last night out of 445, Santori already counted 1,623 preferences making it the most voted in the Pd . In front of him there seems to be only the other young candidate of the Civic Coalition, Emily Clancy, with 2,234 votes. Small curiosity: Emily was supported by Elly Schlein, vice president of Emilia Romagna, already miss preferences in the regional, and both stood out among the “reference politicians” cited by Santori when the sardine adventure took off.

This might sound like a mica alarm for nothing for the Pd Bolognese , despite the 36.5% won at the polls. The new mayor Matteo Lepore has expanded the coalition as perhaps the local leaders of the Democratic Party would have avoided: after the harsh primaries against Isabella Conti, the left has fought a bloody internal battle that rewarded the former councilor for culture of the junta Merola and the oiled Piddina war machine in Bologna. But the analysis of the votes could hide pitfalls. Although the provincial secretary Luigi Tosiani claims to have “built the largest coalition in Italy here”, also hoped for in the future by Enrico Letta , the fact that the most voted faces of the city are “external” or “independent” from the “company” certainly cannot be a good sign.

sardine water at the mill Pd

On the other hand, we confirm what many suspected from the beginning and that someone had summarized in the nice expression “ under the sardine, you will find the piddino “. The former leader of the minnows in Basilicata, Vincenzo Petrone, in unsuspecting times said that the “sanctification of Santori” was used “to bring the votes to the Democratic Party”. One way to win consensus from the now “dying” Five Star Movement and ferry the ballots, via sardines, directly into the dem electoral coffers. Considering that the grillini under the Due Torri stopped at 3.37%, we could say that the operation was fully successful.

“I thank the Pd from Bologna for welcoming me and giving me the opportunity to have an experience that has enriched me a lot “, says Santori to the exponents of the was” toxic brand. ” Salvini and Meloni who would have “lost” the “relationship between politics and citizens” and now ” they lick the wounds “. He claims to have “proved” that “generosity wins over aggression, that politics done silently on the street wins over that rant on Facebook”. And he shows himself smiling. It is comprensible. But on closer inspection, the first objective of the sardines was disregarded, and not a little: they said of wanting to “bring people closer to politics” ? Well, with the turnout at 51.2%, that is 15.8 percentage points less than the average of the Emilia-Romagna region of the last five years, it certainly cannot be said that they have achieved a good result.