Italian center-left parties celebrate blue wave in the US elections

‘Trump paid the price for his high-handedness and his disasters in the midterm elections. Meloni will pay that price in the general election. The center-left has to be ready to govern and to repair the damage done by the right.’

For the center-left, the news from America is a breath of fresh air – a boon that could even help them draft the joint program, a task that will get under way in the next few days. Nicola Fratoianni of the Greens and Left Alliance (AVS) spelled it out: it was “a vote against wars, for social justice and for rights. Candidates with a streak of renewed radicalism on redistribution and the fight against inequality are winning. The message for us is that you win with proposals that are explicitly an alternative to those of the right. And that if you can beat the head of the far-right international, you can defeat his copycats in Europe too.”

Because both socialist and moderate candidates won in the US, the whole progressive coalition gets to celebrate, from AVS all the way to Italia Viva’s Matteo Renzi, who posted a photo of himself with Obama, set against one of Meloni with Trump. “Anyone who listens to Obama’s speech in Michigan will realize that there is no internal........

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