Regionals of Campania, welcome to the elections where nothing has changed for ten years. And this is not meant to be said

Everything changes so that nothing changes in a Campania where time has stopped. Read the ballot that will be delivered to the voters of Campania on September 20. Vincenzo De Luca candidate of Pd. Stefano caldoro Forza Italia candidate. Valeria Ciarambino candidate of the M5s.

And now let’s get a facsimile of the 2015 card out of the drawer. What was written? Vincenzo De Luca candidate of Pd. Stefano Caldoro candidate for Forza Italia. Valeria Ciarambino candidate of the M5. In 2010 though, but look at it, Vincenzo De Luca was the candidate of the Democratic Party and Stefano Caldoro was the candidate of Go Italy (It was called PDL, but it’s the same). Roberto Fico he was the M5 candidate. The only dissonance, Fig. But only because the two-command rule is still in effect here.

It is the photograph of a political system In plaster. Still on himself. Poor ruling class. Where political figures prevail who have now understood that theirs continues to be and will continue to be a regional dimension. De Luca was Vice Minister of Infrastructure of Enrico Letta. Caldoro Minister of Implementation of the Government Program of Silvio Berlusconi.

Raise your hand if you remember. Raise your hands if you remember something important that De Luca and Caldoro did during the Roman experience. Raise your hand if you think that one day De Luca or Caldoro can take positions of this level again. Hands stay down.

As players who accept signings for smaller teams on the avenida del ocaso, De Luca and Caldoro have lost hope of playing in the stadiums where they decide insignia and the Champions League, and they are content to kick a ball in the provincial basins. Where the fans used to shout for (their) salvation they applaud them as if they were still the starters of the national team.

It is fate -due to the venerable age- that unites (aligned with De Luca, but without the emergence of Covid, perhaps we would have seen them all with Caldoro), a group of politicians who have immobilized and plastered the political system of Campania . Clemente Mastella. Paolo Cirino Pomicino. Ciriaco De Mita. They too once played for the national team, made and unmade governments. Now they are satisfied with the selection of the old glories of Campania.

Convinced – and perhaps they are right – to be decisive for the success of the man in whom they decide from time to time to invest their package of votes. In what other region over the last decade have the same people always been candidates and the same stakeholders always moving behind the scenes? Nothing changes. And on September 20, they could also give us the card from five or ten years ago and we may not realize it.