Walter Veltroni, a political model?

"Walter Veltroni, the leader of the new left-wing party in Italy [PD, democratic party], is being given an enthusiastic welcome by both his friends and his foes", notes the editorialist Andrea Romano. Veltromania is at last a solution to the fatal crisis of Italian political parties. ... Unlike in Italy, parties created during the 20th century in the rest of the world or at least in Europe, have managed to function. In the UK and in France, Germany and Spain, big organisations, both progressive and conservative, have managed to impose their leadership and adopt innovative political programmes through traditional, though vital mechanisms: the confrontation of ideas, militant participation, personal selection and the evacuation of losers. These mechanisms were wiped out in Italy in the early 1990s and were never been revived."

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