"To the right of the Democratic Party there is today a political force of liberal inspiration that has proposed itself as an elite party, with some success in urban areas. At the same time, the M5s, despite not a few political and programmatic contradictions hidden with an effective electoral campaign, it appeared as a force capable of radically interpreting the demands of the most disadvantaged sectors. Both took advantage of that
unresolved identity trait of the Democratic Party
".
"
There is therefore a pincer around us, a sort of siege, even in the media
".
Thus the outgoing Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando (Pd) on Facebook.
"There is the temptation of a
hostile takeover
for the other forces of the parliamentary minority, there is an opportunity to give a blow to the main opposition force for the right. An internal debate that is not always exciting and a certain conformism of the media make the rest. If the political framework should worry us, the social one can paradoxically offer us a possible
way out of the siege
. A useful way out for us and for the country, whose economy is expected for very difficult months: positive response to the pandemic shock, built at European and national level - a response that, beyond the propaganda, is largely the result of the work of the PD in the last two governments - is running out ", he explains.
"The real congress, or at least the most important phase, is taking place now, defining the platform of the opposition. And this will happen in the fire of the political and social struggle, and it will be an opportunity to define our identity in the light of the conflicts that are destined to develop. New and old conflicts, to which one does not respond either with repressions or with old formulas ".
In his opinion, "we must immediately identify the slogans of the main economic and social urgencies and at the same time outline a program for the reform of the development model", adds Orlando.