Nichi Vendola
Puglia Regional President shall act against Silvio Berlusconi and wants new elections if the current prime minister should be overthrown. This shocked the establishment left
Two totally conflicting worries plague of Italy's center-left opposition: for 14 December scheduled vote of no confidence against the embattled Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the impending elections. So rosy, the prospects of the confidence vote appear - so gloomy are the predictions for the cutting of the left and liberal-left Partito Democratico (PD) for this case. From the deep crisis of the rights can beat the Democrats have no capital. On the contrary, they were at the - lost - Pick up vote 2008, 33 percent, they lie in recent polls only 25 percent. In the colorless party leader Bersani, the gap to the base continuously increased.
feel represented by the precariat, creeping poverty and political disenfranchisement of their subscribed Italians since 2008 no longer directly elected, but royally paid elected officials anyway. The left electorate thinks he is politically homeless, particularly as the traditional communists after years of self-destruction has virtually disappeared from the scene. Disenchantment with the election result, many frustrated voters are left looking for his salvation even in the shadow came from Berlusconi's ex-post fascist Gianfranco Fini, who can expect his new right-wing party Futuro e Libertà (FLI) in the prior eight percent of the vote. The last hope the faceless Democrat is in a "government of national unity" with FLI, the conservative Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) and liberal factions. In order to avoid new elections, even a coalition with Berlusconi's PDL is considered - only the padrone would stay out. One hopes the house PD, unscathed through the winter, because with the end of Berlusconi loses resulting from sozialdemokratisierten Communists and progressive Christian Democratic Party its right to exist.
true colors
One of the few who openly advocate for early polls, the Apulian Regional President Nichi Vendola. lies in polls its 2009 collective movement formed Sinistra, Ecologia e Libertà (SEL), although only four and a half percent. However, he is regarded as hopes of left voters spectrum. The word has spread even among the Democrats. His public announcement to run for prime minister, reinforced the nightmare of the PD before new elections. Vendola with the party would have to show your colors. Just before it shrinks.
was twice the 52-year-old Barese - trademark: silver earring and pin-striped suit - say is already against the old boys' ranks of the Democratic Party: 2005 and 2010, he succeeded the hussar string to capture the conservative stronghold of Apulia - contrary to all forecasts and against the open opposition of the center-left coalition. Stones laid his very ex-Prime Minister D'Alema in the way, the eminence grise of the Democrats. When the primaries are set Vendola - 2005 still a member of Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) - but both times by a surprise Democratic candidate against the wishes and then won the regional elections. His recipe for success: He is in touch with the people and a clear stance. As a professed Catholic, he himself is deeply rooted in the tradition of Southern Italy. At the same time he has with his years of involvement in the gay rights movement a sense of how irrational to overcome in the tradition of resistance can be arrested.
As governor of battered by corruption and Parteienfilz Apulia Vendola is on transparency. When citizens are found in the Mezzogiorno encourage glasnost appeal, but stirs up resentment of the established nomenclature. Their barely concealed hostility he explained as follows: ". Today we are dealing with a political class that feels under siege in their palace entrenched and consoles himself with his own, auto-referential advertising" Those who also dare to be a traitor. That he, as head of government of Apulia also belong to the establishment, Vendola will not be accepted. "For many reasons I have always applied all against me, right, left and center. About Me be seen as part of the nomenklatura is, there probably is not easy. "
A little communist
in the galaxy since the dissolution of the KPI as elementary disintegrating and re-uniting the left splinter parties representing the trained philosopher, the non-dogmatic reform wing. His vision is a people's party left of center, in the modern alternatives to capitalism are a consensus. More important than rigid dogma, it was so Vendola, "get rid of ghosts and the fetishes of a world that exploited the life explains the work of a commodity and destroys the sense of community." Vendola argues against welfare cuts and privatization, for minority rights and the Receipt of battered by speculation and bad planning environment. In order to get closer, he considers the purpose alliances with conservative parties is essential. In Puglia it has local alliances of SEL and UDC given. This is the Communist Party in the Vendola grown up in the tradition of Enrico Berlinguer. But his search for the "historic compromise" also has biographical causes. Whether he still understood as a communist, he was recently asked on a talk show. A nostalgic smile on his face before he replied: "A little bit."
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