Part Wednesday, August 27 the first party of National Unity renziana age. He says goodbye to name the Democratic party and tries to stay afloat with a reduced portfolio. Opens the dance Debora Serracchiani, closes Matteo Renzi. Parading government ministers of small agreements, although there will be the Minister of the Interior Ncd Angelino Alfano . The Democratic Party reopen the political season in Bologna, a city where the local party, thanks to an impressive network of volunteers, organizes every year and its festivals where sponsors, from cooperatives, are always very generous.
The sore remains one of the accounts. Compared to the last edition, held in Genoa, the event will have a budget reduced by 30%. The cut comes just from the new secretary of Matteo Renzi . “This year we will have 480 thousand euro and will not be spending more money than we have already collected by the sponsor,” says Francesco Bonifazi, treasurer of the Democratic Party. “The idea is to manage the available resources in a transparent way. We wanted to give an example: it is unthinkable to have a party that produces losses. ” The reference to the “cashier” of the Democratic Party is hole of almost 11 million euro that the Nazarene ended the 2013 budget The intention expressed by Bonifazi during the presentation of the Feast of the Unit to Park north of Bologna (the events will kick off on 27 and ends August 7) is to close the budget the Democratic Party in 2014 without losses. To recover funds, the festival there will also be a booth set up to collect two per thousand, while the tents will take away the membership online.
Several news this year starting with the name, which returns to be no more than the Democratic Party, but Festa de l’Unità. “When Lino Paganelli (national officer of the party, ed) asked me to bring the event in Bologna, I pointed out that we here have never agreed to change the name of the party. And I asked if this was a problem, “says Raffaele Donini, provincial secretary of the Democratic Party. “After two days was the same Renzi to answer us indirectly, announcing that the festival of the party would regain the original name.”
During the presentation there was also talk of the fate of the newspaper founded by Antonio Gramsci 90 years ago, that just last July has closed its doors. An hour before the event begins, the editorial board of “Unity” held a press conference under the awnings of the park north: “The Democratic Party is in the front line because this is not the last year of the journal but the year of recovery, “says Bonifazi, which will meet the journalists along with Debora Serracchiani. “Many economic actors and editorials are showing interest and attention.”
National Day celebrations will begin with a free concert in the main square of the party, the two singers Noa and Mira Awad one Israeli, the other Palestinian. Matteo Renzi will close on September 7. For the Government will not mind the interior minister, Angelino Alfano, nor the holder of Economic Development Federica Guidi, both, the organizers explain, for commitments. There will be space on the other hand, among others, by former Secretaries Veltroni, and Epifani Bersani, Massimo D’Alema in tandem with Pier Ferdinando Casini, and Nichi Vendola. The ‘allies’ of Ncd will be representatives from Maurizio Lupi, Beatrice Lorenzin, Fabrizio Cicchitto and Quagliariello, while there will be Forza Italian Giovanni Toti. Space for Laura Boldrini and Peter Grasso. Absent the ‘grillini’ after the attempt went wrong, to invite Federico Pizzarotti: “They did not really want to dialogue, respect him,” he scoffs Paganelli. The local party (the provincial party will be extended every year until 22 September) expects a million visitors. The proceeds will be about four million with a profit of 350,000 Euros but will remain the Democratic Party of Bologna. Volunteers who participate in the festivities will be about 10 thousand, three thousand, on average, every day, five weekends.
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