Journalists rage against Calenda, accusing him of everything but the one fundamental fault he has: a temper that is incompatible with the role of political leader.
But this serious flaw no one has the courage to reproach him for.
Then they accuse him of strange things.
The They reproach that they do not choose between left and right, which means asking one who builds the center to commit suicide They stigmatize the fact that he voted a few times for right-wing proposals that were part of the electoral program of Action....
They pick on him because he raises the stakes of foreign policy and the economy against 5Stelle ,as if a serious party could turn a blind eye to these issues.
In short, some journalists are not okay with Calenda having strict programmatic positions and subordinating political maneuvering to consistency on content.
The recent departures of 4 parliamentarians from Azione cannot be ascribed to a gesture of consistency. If the issue for which they left is Action's support for the "wide field" for the Liguria regional elections, well there had been similar choices in the elections in Sardinia and Abruzzo and then the 4 musketeers who went from opposition to majority had nothing to say...In short. Let's be serious.
Calenda-as Montanelli jokingly said of Spadolini-loves and corresponds.And I would also add that he loves to argue with himself, but telling others that he is at peace with his own self. Calenda is not a skilled politician : he always says what he thinks, and in Italy this is a weakness. Moreover, he cannot hide his disproportionate smugness toward what he - not without reason - considers a superiority in knowledge of problems. Moreover, he does not really seem to be an inclusive one, capable of involving others in the running of the party.A luxury few can afford.
He should take more inspiration from Ugo la Malfa ,whose heir he considers himself to be. The great Republican leader gave bread to bread and wine to wine but without boasting about it rather clad his crude analyses with the bitterness of the unheard Cassandra.
Ugo La Malfa, too, never stood still in political tactics: he entered and left governments with elasticity. It was the only way he could count with a scattered 3%.Calenda should learn to communicate his certainties better without flaunting sicumacy but by putting forward his adamantine certainties as the fruit of troubled elaboration work that has the good of the country at its center not praise for his own prowess. It is never too late, although it is very difficult for Calenda to change character.
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