The salamella goes down badly with the Pd: Festa dell’Unità in revenue crisis | Libero Quotidiano.it

For the Pd it is really a tough moment. Just when everything seemed to be going smoothly, in the name of that “stubbornly united” with which Elly Schlein is leading the party savoring victory. Just when, as news from a few days ago, the same secretary broke the record for longevity as leader of the Nazareno. And yet something is wrong, indeed. There is Giuseppe Conte, of course, who does not want to be a mere figurehead and is playing his own game. There is the debate that could not be more debated about the primaries, which offers a gem a day: do we hold them or not? If yes, when? And how? Who votes? And if our people split? How do we put the pieces back together? And why don’t we nominate as coalition leader a fictitious eighteen-year-old or an old partisan to avoid the obligation to indicate the prime ministerial candidate? And a third name, who could it be?

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Here, on this situation from Bologna came the coup de grace. Unexpected. Very heavy. A blow. Comrades, it’s time to tighten the belt. In every sense. No more record revenues at the Festa dell’Unità, the traditional pillar for self-financing. Yes indeed: from the event opening today at Maurizio Cevenini park in Borgo Panigale until September 20, the Pd expects to collect 10% less than the one million euros collected in 2025. There are signs of crisis, admitted to the Corriere di Bologna the provincial head of the festival, Lele Roveri. Comrade Roveri has a good grasp of the situation: “There is a general contraction of about 25% in consumption. The number of visitors holds, but spending in restaurants has dropped by three or four euros per capita.” Going from 20 to 16 euros. Signs noticed during other festivals held in the area. “Instead of ordering a first and a second course, people choose to share a dish.” So there was nothing left but to activate the austerity lever, even if the number of restaurants will be the same as last year (seven, the bars will be three instead).

As done by colleagues at the Modena festival, also in Bologna Monday will be dedicated to the weekly closure. “To standardize shifts and allow volunteers to catch their breath.” So take one less day of the event, add the risk of bad weather with possible “heavy thunderstorms” after the summer heatwave “a problem that will be everywhere in general,” add the contraction of consumption, and here is that what opens this afternoon with a video tribute to Francesco Guccini risks being a festival in a minor key. And it was not needed. Not only because it means less income ahead of the very long electoral campaign for the conquest of Palazzo Chigi, but also because next year voting will be precisely in Bologna, where Mayor Matteo Lepore is about to conclude his term (he will be a guest on September 19, the day before Schlein). Enrico Di Stasi, city secretary of the Pd, defended himself by attacking: “We will run the campaign we are used to running. But we will keep our heads high against any excessive attacks that may come.” A reference to the local climate after the controversies over the “Fakir case,” the 42-year-old Moroccan who died on July 19 during a police check after he had a breakdown.

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The program – for which 2,000 volunteers will work organizationally – includes the participation of all the leaders of the “broad field”. No center-right representatives, and that can be understood. Less understandable, however, is the door slammed in the face of Azione, Carlo Calenda’s formation accused of being, on the “Fakir case,” “on the same level as the right.” “Azione does not take lessons from the Pd,” replied Marco Lombardo, Azione senator. Yesterday Matteo Richetti, another senator of Calenda’s party, at the Rimini Meeting said that with these premises “I don’t think there will be conditions to jointly support the outgoing mayor.” A tough moment.

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