There are not only the primaries. Silvia Salis could enter the field as a unifier of the center galaxy of the center-left, thus yielding to the increasingly pressing requests coming from various circles, but after the polls. This, in fact, is one of the options that the mayor of Genoa is considering. A path that would allow her to reconcile two needs: to avoid, as she has always said she wanted to do, the arena of the polls, which promises to be chaotic, crowded, and conflictual, but at the same time not to disappear entirely from the national scene. Not to miss what the Americans call the “momentum,” the contingency in which, for a series of factors, it seems that all the stars align in your favor.
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So, here is the plan that is gaining ground between Genoa and Rome: to present herself, but later. To offer her availability to bring together the various center groups that, so far, have not managed to find convergence, but after the primary ring. In this world, moreover, she would not go back on what she has said so far: I am not running in the primaries. At the same time, however, she would not miss the opportunity to be a protagonist in the center-left.
An opportunity that is now offered to her, but that could vanish later. The phases of politics, as recent history teaches, are increasingly short, increasingly fast. Support rises very quickly, but just as quickly falls. For this reason, many are suggesting to Salis not to completely withdraw from the game that will begin in a few weeks.
THE TIMING
Now she is the novelty of the moment, the promise of the center-left, the awaited one. But in six months? After the political elections? For this reason, the hypothesis of presenting herself after the primaries, offering herself as the only one capable of uniting the center of the center-left, is becoming a possibility.
Meanwhile, in October, her book, It’s Already Tomorrow, will be released. And the presentations around Italy will be a test to verify Salis’s support outside Genoa and Liguria.
We will see if the star of the mayor-athlete, an expression of a pop, modern, reformist, determined left, shines beyond the borders of the city of the Lantern or not.
Moreover, from October 2 to 4, the Leopolda will also take place, the ritual event organized by Matteo Renzi in the old Florentine station. A crucial moment to take stock of the reformists of the center-left and the path to take.
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The initiatives in that area continue to be many and distinct. There is Renzi who wants to launch Casa Riformista, a container that would like to go beyond Italia Viva. There is Alessandro Onorato, with his Civic Project, which aims to bring together administrators and civic groups from all over the country and who, recently, made an alliance with Ismaele La Vardera, former correspondent of Le Iene, now regional deputy of Sicily, who brought his political movement, Controcorrente, inside Civic Project, taking on the role of national president. A pact that allows Onorato to establish roots on the island. Then there is Ernesto Ruffini, with the Più Uno committees, spread throughout the country. There is Riccardo Magi, with +Europa. So far, however, no one has had the strength to unite them all. It is true that the strongest personality in this area remains Renzi.
For the capillarity of the political structure he has, for the fact of being undoubtedly the best-known leader of the area, for his resume, being able to boast having led the main opposition party and having been at Palazzo Chigi.
REFORMISTS AT THE MEETING
Before the restart, there is another interesting appointment for the fate of the center: the Rimini Meeting, an event close to the world of Communion and Liberation.
Guests in Rimini will be, in the reformist area of the center-left, Maria Elena Boschi, group leader in the Chamber of Deputies for Italia Viva, Gaetano Manfredi, mayor of Naples, Beppe Sala, mayor of Milan, Pina Picierno, who, having left the PD, created Spazio Pubblico.
For the Democratic Party, the reformist area is well represented with Giorgio Gori, Stefano Bonaccini, Irene Tinagli, and Michele De Pascale, president of the Emilia Romagna Region, an emerging star of the area, seen by many as a promise for a post-Schlein era. There too, the movements of the center will become clear.
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