Some statistics are worth a thousand words. About two weeks ago, as the general election approached, Daily fact published a poll on the voting intentions of a sample of 2000 Italians, classified according to their type of profession. The results obtained are clear: only 9% of workers place their trust in the Democratic Party (PD, centre-left), against 28% who intend to vote for Fratelli d’Italia, and 21% for the League (two far-right parties ).
According to this same poll, the PD would concentrate its electoral force among the leaders and in the intellectual professions, where Enrico Letta’s party would obtain 34% of the voting intentions. Worse, the preferences expressed would make PD “the first party of the rich”, since he “convinces one in three people among those who earn more than €5,000 per month”, details the Roman newspaper.
“The parts of the ZTL”
“Decades of estrangement between left-wing parties and the working classes will find their definitive consecration in the vote of September 25”, slice like this Daily fact. This newspaper close to the 5-star Movement (antisystem) is never kind to the PD, but it is clearly not the only one to reproach it for having gentrified itself.
In the right-wing press, for example, the PD is regularly mocked as “The parts of the ZTL”, an acronym that designates the city centers where cars are prohibited, and therefore, by extension, the favored neighborhoods of rich metropolises, which would have become the