Il Pd it's at the end of the race. Those on the left rejoice at the almost 23% collected by the party of Nicola Zingaretti Sunday at European elections he didn't understand much. Second Pier Giorgio Ardeni, president of the authoritative Cattaneo Institute who, as in every electoral round, analyzed the so-called “flow of votes” to understand how Italians move in the secrecy of the ballot box, the big problem that is difficult to resolve given this situation is that the Dems have in fact absorbed everything that can be absorbed in terms of votes.
“That of the Democratic Party – explains Ardeni a Italy Today – it was one defensive victory. He managed to protect his electoral base, thus avoiding an exodus, but it had no appeal outside of it, that is, he failed to convince voters 5 Position or League“. Furthermore, unlike what happened to the Movement, “his dispersed votes in favor of the are negligible’abstention.The underlining, by the management, of the importance of this electoral appointment and the fears that the party could take the road towards disappearance they made the vote particularly outgoing. This explains the small size of the losses due to abstention. So the Democratic Party has essentially stopped the bleeding which in recent years had brought many votes from its electoral base towards the M5s but is unable to bring those votes back”. Considering that the League still has room for growth ahead of it according to Areni, the role of the Democratic Party as the main opposition party but without real prospects of widening its field of alliances seems to destined the center-left to the role of spectator for many more, many months.
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