Pd, the reformist Ceccanti: “Circle congress outside the rules in Pisa, is it a national harbinger?”

"What happened on the 10th at the congress of the Pd circle of Pisa S. Marco-S.Giusto for the renewal of the municipal level fundamentally contradicts internal democracy. I hope that it is not the harbinger of what could happen at the national level in the Pd". This is what constitutionalist Stefano Ceccanti wrote on his blog, recounting what happened.

"First via WhatsApp and then at the beginning of the meeting in person - Ceccanti writes - the secretary of the club, the only one authorized to call, reports that the legal conditions to proceed to the vote do not exist, as there is no shared list of those entitled to vote. Since this is a party and not a confused student assembly from a few decades ago, I abide by this communication provided by the authorized body and on the basis of an important motivation, I abandon the meeting and leave for Rome, ready to return when the conditions of certainty have matured".

"Once I got to the station, on the club chat - Ceccanti continues - some self-convened people, in disagreement with the secretary, announced that they had proceeded to vote anyway. I therefore reply on WhatsApp that if you intend to do some form of original political demonstration with this, you can certainly do it, as long as you do not pretend to give legal value to a vote without a shared list, not convened by the secretary and in which I could not participate anyway at that point. Despite this warning, during the train journey I received notification of a count that had taken place, moreover with less than half of the members, as if nothing had happened".

The constitutionalist continues: "I therefore immediately present the inevitable appeal to the guarantee bodies, leaving the WhatsApp chat of what is no longer a circle of the Democratic Party, founded on the Statute, but of a group of self-convened clearly outside the statutory legality as well as any reasonableness and courtesy that should characterize any association. Unless we want to take as a model those illiberal democracies, without forms and limits, which however should be alternatives to the Democratic Party. I want to hope that such a drift is contained as soon as possible, in any case before we all find ourselves under the rubble of a party and democracy".