Veltroni seduces northern Italy

Edmondo Berselli is following the electoral campaign leading up to the legislatives to be held mid-April and notes that the candidate of the Democratic Party, Walter Veltroni, is progressing in the north of the country, which is traditionally on the right. "The Democratic party's change of direction has modified the confrontation between left and right. Four thousand people gathered on the Plazza delle Erbe to welcome Veltroni to Mentua, Lombardy. This hasn't been seen since Karol Wojtyla's visit. Can it be said that a national political leader has been born beyond the river Po? ... Veltroni's initiative is a medium-term and long-term investment. The north is a concentration of stagnant interests and secular political cultures that, with time, have blended into Berlusconi's mould. Veltroni's chances in the north will not depend on his capacity to come across as a moderate left-wing missionary, but rather on his ability to seem a carrier of a modern political and economic vision."

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