"Republic" of the day August 29, 2010 published an interview with the mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, under the title: "The new Olive is yawning, is now of scrap our leaders. " Quibble I do not care if the Democratic Party is in hand to scrap politicians but Matteo Renzi.
Matteo Renzi, despite being a young emerging director, is a policy framework, which built its first steps with the traditional mechanism of political co-optation: was young secretary of the provincial federation of PPI in 1991 and then of Margaret until 2003. His political career has developed, therefore, in the most classic tradition of political parties.
The leap to the presidency of the province of Florence in 2004, from won position in the party of origin. In the language of political scientists would say that Matteo Renzi, therefore, is a junior insider, a young man entered, the circle of power party. Other scholars call him a boy insider, that a young man of power, but independent.
In 2009, at the age of 34 years, Renzi has launched the challenge to win the nomination for mayor of Florence against the leaders of his party: Veltroni's lined up against Lapo Pistelli, another young sapling grew up in the PPI of Florence, dalemiani sides against the member Michael Ventura. The current mayor of Florence won, because he had power Political and administrative staff and sufficient resources to conduct independent political battle.
To date, Renzi is one of the few members of the political elite of the Democratic Party afford to criticism of senior inside , be clear to those who hold power in the party. The reason is simple, the representatives of the generation of Renzi, you are building a political career in the shadow of the block generation of Bersani, D'Alema, Veltroni, Bindi and have no intention at all to oppose their mentors. It also happened in the recent regional elections. Preferisocno be co-opt rather to gain political space and advancing proposals assuming solutions.
The question of who enters and who stays out of the way and, once inside, how it remains in remains open. If you really want to renew the policy in Italy should reflect more on this topic and those who "live for politics."
I do not see the horizon, however, "Lionheart" policies of the new generations who want to launch challenges to the top. If anything, the young politicians who must try to understand best to use the advantage of generations, suggesting to voters that anagrafe necessarily match the new. But this is only part of a greater ease of use of the media.
Today, Renzi launches challenge to the national level, but should also say what is the political objective which it pursues. To beat the politics of the center, made up of populist ideology, a Peronist in Italian dressing, is not sufficient to deploy the new generation of politics. It should explain how it comes out of the Italian crisis, what are the proposals to reduce the excessive power of managers, what are the policies to give a little 'dignity to public school, what are the proposals because policy of a left reformist conditions, to eliminate, the more anarchic aspects of our national capitalism, such as public policies to protect the work. Without forgetting, finally, international politics: a reflection on our role in Afghanistan would be nice, etc..
The rest is all a game inside the political class of which the citizens are mere spectators.