“In an enlightening lesson, Stefano Bonaccini, President of the Democratic Party, explains to us that millions of Italians vote right-wing because they have studied little. We’ve heard this before. Those who vote for them are cultured, aware, and intelligent citizens, while those who vote for us would be pitiable ignorants, if not in need of re-education. Perhaps Bonaccini should consider a simpler hypothesis: those Italians, regardless of the schools they attended, have learned from experience the consequences of left-wing policies.” The Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni writes this on Facebook commenting on the words of the PD President Stefano Bonaccini, who recently said that on the right “a majority of voters have little education, live in inland areas and city outskirts, and are worse off economically.” An immediate controversy breaks out.
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Meloni’s attack
“They have seen less safe cities, uncontrolled borders, forgotten outskirts, and moral lessons given by those who pretend to explain to others how they must live, how they must vote, and how they must think – the Prime Minister continues on Facebook -. Those Italians vote right-wing because we do not ask them how many educational qualifications they have before listening to them. We respect them. And perhaps it is precisely this respect that Bonaccini and a certain left, despite many defeats, have not yet studied enough.”
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Bonaccini to Meloni: but I was talking about a problem of the left
“They extracted a phrase from a more comprehensive reasoning – Bonaccini defends himself -. I was saying that in the last ten years in the West, every time there was a vote, and often the right won, from the first to the second Trump, to Brexit, to Le Pen, to the vote for the right in Italy, the right took a vote not from everyone, but a majority, if we break it down, among those who have slightly fewer educational qualifications, among those who are worse off economically, and among those who live in inland areas, countryside, and city outskirts. This has happened, breaking down the vote, there are analyses, studies. Which does not mean that there are no highly educated people who vote for the League, Brothers of Italy, or Vannacci. But I said it as a problem for the left.” He adds: “The left, which has often lost elections in many European countries and in the USA – he added – should be able to represent more and better those who are more economically disadvantaged, or who in life have had fewer opportunities to obtain higher educational qualifications. I mean to say that a more popular left is needed. But do you think I would dare say that only those who study… come on. I made an analysis of what reality is if you look at the vote breakdown.” “I understand – Bonaccini said further – that it is easier to look for a rather surprising controversy with me, yesterday Bignami and partly the League started, rather than answer why we pay the bills, gasoline among the most expensive in the world, or why there are too many precarious workers especially young people, why public health is collapsing, or why the country is not growing and will be the worst in the 27 EU countries for growth.”
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