Wide shot, “Rai effect” on the Pd-M5s agreement in Liguria: the rift reignites tension on the Renzians in coalition. The grillini: “If they don’t take them away, we’ll go alone”

In the coalition the issue is treated with rigorous (and worried) caution, there are those who define them as “scripted skirmishes” and those who promise “a positive solution in a few hours”. The high tension in the relationship between Pd e M5showever, in the Largo Ligurian field called to vote in exactly one month, at the regional elections on 27 and 28 October, with the former dem minister Andrea Orlando candidate for joint president, remains. And it marks the last day available to coalitions and parties to publicly deliver the electoral lists.

The rift between the Dem and Grillini over the vote on the RAI board of directors yesterday reignited tensions at a national level, but what continues to fuel them, even in these hours, is the Renzian issue in Liguria. With the Dem component of the coalition which has worked for weeks to find a solution and make a delegation of Italia Vivaand the same Grillini leaders in the area who threaten: “If they get all the Renzians out, good, otherwise we’ll march out and run alone.”

If the temporal coincidence with the rift on Rai could be “suspicious”, this is also evident from the tones and formula shared by the M5s to explain the case (“We want to avoid any convergence, affiliation, union with Renzi, Renzians and various disguises. If in the Democratic Party there are orphans of Renzi, it’s a problem of the Democratic Party, not ours”, said the vice-president of the Movement yesterday Riccardo Ricciardi), among the Ligurian Grillini managers, instead, “the coherence of those who have always expressed their idea clearly” is claimed. In short, to eliminate any possible “instrumentality” of the position taken, in times of serial tug-of-war within the broad camp, and to reiterate “the line already supported” by weeks of negotiations.

If the request to join the Renzians in a coalition came from the Nazarene, the long summer of the Ligurian camp was played out – more than on the investiture of Orlando as a common candidate – above all on the possible formula to digest the entry of IV in the alliance with those most opposed, from the Grillini themselves to the Rossoverdi. The white smoke was only reached in late September, after weeks of negotiations and back and forth on the Genoa-Rome axis, but it seemed like everyone could agree. With Italia Viva in coalition but without a symbol and very few reference candidates, none directly recognizable as a well-known face of the party, in the “Reformists” list together with +Europa and Psi (and Action in another centrist list). A possible scenario lasted a few days, however, until the Rai case, and the returning tensions between the two majority shareholders of the pre-Regional agreement.

“We have always said it, we said we did not want IV in a coalition, neither with the symbol nor hidden, and in exchange for the promise to avoid any possible role of the Renzians in the coalition we also withdrew our proposal for presidential candidate, the senator Luca Pirondini”, explains the M5s. “If they really miss the Renzians, let them put the Renzians in the Democratic Party: however, we will be forced to run alone with our list”.

A position that could also and above all appear as a message addressed within the M5s, after the controversies of the Grillina base in the area, divided both on participation in the broad field and on the methods of choosing the candidates, which on the day of delivery of the electoral lists, exactly one month until the vote, could however become a small, big earthquake. “No problem, the agreement took effort, the electoral lists are still to be finalized and everything will be resolved”, the coalition table cuts short, making it clear that there will probably be some intervention on the last names, but a month before the Regionals It doesn’t seem like the best way to launch the race for the vote.