We are talking about Paolo Gentiloni again, even though he does everything to discourage gossip and dissuade discussions about him. And yet, like it or not, it is his name, that of the former European Commissioner, former Prime Minister, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, that reappears in summer conversations in the center-left. His name returns as the solution for those who still hope for a “tie” in the next political elections, a scenario that would open up the need for a broad-based government. A strong front among the Democrats, especially, who do not give up. These are the ones who continue to have many doubts about the option that seems set: either Elly Schlein or Giuseppe Conte, we will see with the primaries. Of course, the condition for a third possibility to return to the field is that the new electoral law, which the center-right wants at all costs and which was adopted yesterday by the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies as the basic text, does not go through. A law that aims precisely to avoid a tie.
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Or that the two, Schlein and Conte, give up in favor of a third. Complicated hypotheses. Yet politics always holds surprises. And so the name of the former prime minister continues to emerge. If the reform were not approved, it is said, Gentiloni would be a perfect solution. A member of the Democratic Party, but with good cross-party relations (he collaborated as an EU commissioner with center-right ministers), he is the center-left personality who can boast the most significant cursus honorum. The only one who could compete, but a step below, is Roberto Gualtieri, mayor of Rome, strong with new consensus, also a European commissioner and minister (but he was not prime minister). Gualtieri, however, wants to aim for a second term as mayor. And many see him as the card to lead the Democratic Party and the center-left in the era after Schlein.
So, we return to Gentiloni, a reformist, founder of the Democratic Party, respectful of the Democratic Party’s affairs, but certainly not close to the current secretariat’s line. He enjoys deep esteem at the Quirinale, where he established an excellent relationship as prime minister and even before as minister (but Sergio Mattarella is an old acquaintance: both were in the Margherita). And the Quirinale itself is the other topic of discussion in the center-left’s summer conversations. Who will be the progressive candidate? It is clear that whoever conquers Palazzo Chigi will have weight in leading the games for the Colle.
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There are those who think of Gentiloni as prime minister for two years, and then moving from there to the Quirinale. Or those who, rather, see the former prime minister as a card to play only when the Championship final begins, which will decide Mattarella’s successor. There are many candidates. But Gentiloni could play the card of cross-party consensus, as well as the support of his predecessor. Paradoxically, the obstacles could come more from his party of origin, the Democratic Party. From circles close to the secretary. But from now until January 2029 there is time. In politics, three years are a geological era. Everything could change. And hopes cost nothing.
