And secondly, populism - whether in the caricatural form of Presidente Berlusconi or the anti-european stance of President Klaus, or expressed by the fundamental inaction of Chairmen Karamanlis and Barroso - is gaining ground and winning victories throughout Europe. It is the historical responsibility of the Social Democrats to wage a war against populism with the weapons of the Democratic Left: the language of truth and resistance; the protection of the underprivileged; the rejection of nationalism in all its forms.
WALTERLOO
“TA NEA” newspaper, February 19 2009
Berlusconi's triumph in Sardinia and the consolidation of his position as “padre padrone” of Italian politics resulted in the resignation of the opposition’s leader and thus in the termination of his broader political plan. Besides underlining - this very moment that everybody is trampling on the defeated - the personal and political integrity of Walter Veltroni, who assumed responsibility and never lowered himself to his political opponent’s level, two are, I reckon, the political conclusions of interest to the European Left: Firstly, “soft consent”, the turn to the Right and the formation of loose coalitions will undoubtedly lead to the defeat of the Left and to the exploitation of the crisis by the Right, despite the fact that it is the Right which is to a large extent responsible for the ongoing crisis.
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