Per proporre un’alternativa vincente servono equilibrio e presenza territoriale

[Autom. eng. transl.] IN his investiture speech, the new secretary Bersani set two objectives. First: find a balance on the nature of the Democratic Party. The party model of militants cannot coexist with the American model of committees and primaries, which it reduces extra activists. Within the party the rules will be rewritten and the secretary will be influential, clearly skeptical of the road traveled so far: it has been urged the vote of the voters at every opportunity but, in internal debates, there was rarely a count, preferring some compromise or, worse, not deciding. Second: build a winning alternative. This is why the Democratic Party needs allies in the center. Rutellian haemorrhage seems limited to a few followers. But the ex-populars, anxious about the continuous leaks, they are waiting to see which direction the secretary will take. Lombardy is a "hot" area from this point of view. Then there is a no less important challenge, the territorial one. The Democratic Party wants to be federal but for now this remains a good aspiration, also played instrumentally by local secretaries largely crowned by Rome. But in the North, the opponent is a territorial movement that has put to good use a policy based on themes historically the prerogative of the center-left: autonomy, widespread entrepreneurship, work. The shift to the League of the social groups that care most about these issues (artisans and workers) deprives the Democratic Party of its "natural" pool of voters and the competition risks relegating the Democratic Party to the third row behind the Pdl and the League.