The progressive camp has evaporated. Who saves the Calabrian center-left?

John

By John

The famous phrase by Nanni Moretti in the film “Aprile” is useful («D’Alema, say something left-wing, react!») to photograph the current situation of the center-left in Calabria. Evaporated, or perhaps never really born, the broad camp suffers yet another electoral defeat. Debacle in Reggio Calabria, defeat in Crotone, disappointments suffered like wildfire across the territories. Always the same film: a coalition that is not such and loses because it is not such. Then, as usual, the same thing after the match: silences and announcements of reflections in progress.
The Democratic Party will try to (self) console itself with the fact that “we are the first party in the coalition”; the M5S will argue that in the territories, especially with preferential voting, local caciques often prevail; Avs will follow the line of the need to move on while waiting for better times.
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