Elly Schlein has entrusted the task of rebuilding (or rather, pacifying) the Democratic Party to Peppe Provenzano. And there had been little doubt about this for days. Yesterday the choice was made official to the other souls of the party, who shared it. While the formula of the directorate that will support the former minister has come back into question.
The national secretary was not present in the video call called at the end of last week. Impropertable commitments held her back. And leading the discussion – between European and national parliamentarians elected in Sicily, ARS deputies and the two members of the national executive Sergio Lima and Antonio Rubino – was the organizational manager Igor Taruffi.
Having separated Provenzano’s announcement from that of the other members helps the secretary to underline that the former minister will be primus inter pares in the body that will replace the regional secretariat after the resignation of Anthony Barbagallo.
Provenzano will have a broad role in leading the party. However it is certain that he will be supported by representatives of the other areas. And in this sense the idea of limiting the members of the directorate to two came back into discussion because this would have excluded the Orfini area and various other offshoots of both the majority and minority currents.
Provenzano himself will probably make the names official on Thursday, upon arrival in Palermo. In the meantime, the last corners of the internal conflict will have to be ironed out. The Bonaccini area, which brings together most of the deputies led by Michele Catanzaro, has again asked to freeze the two main bodies resulting from the contested congress two years ago: the management and the assembly.
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