Roberto D'Alimonte: "The huge mistake that Luigi Di Maio is about to make"

The M5s is no longer the party "catcher", no longer fishing to the right and left as when it was the movement of discontent. And that past doesn't come back, if Luigi Di Maio he thinks he commits a gross error of assessment ". Roberto D'Alimonte, political scientist and director of the electoral study center of Luiss, in an interview a ItaliaOggi, he makes his analysis on the party led by Di Maio that now, he says, is "the new left". If Di Maio really wants to go back to the origins, he is very wrong: "It will mean that little flags will fly instead of governing. The anti-casta party, of the malpancists, does not govern by itself".

In short, "potentially they are the party of the new left. Yesterday they were transversal, post ideological, catchy, they took votes from right to left. A party of the nation of discontent. Today may be the new left, "continues D'Alimonte. But they must" abandon the anti-war battles and become protagonists of the progressive camp, where to challenge for the leadership the old left which is the Pd. So it can be the needle of the scale, otherwise M5s will not go anywhere ".

After all, the five stars are collapsing. they lost in all regional elections that were held during the government of Venice (Abruzzo, Basilicata and Sardinia) in favor of abstention and Alloy. And now in Umbria with the Pd. But do not ally with anyone as Di Maio now claims, according to D'Alimonte it would not make sense because "then they will remain in opposition in all regions, this Di Maio does not say". As he does not say "what they will do to the Policies. If the reasoning of isolation also applies to the upcoming elections or not".

Certainly "many things depend on electoral reform". If one should pass pure majority law like the one that Salvini asks with its constitutional referendum "we would have an electoral system with 100% single-member constituencies. Without agreements with the PD, the M5s in each college should have a stronger candidate than the center-right and center-left. In short, it would elect a handful of deputies and senators, it would become a force like Leu or a little more. Totally irrelevant ".