First, the unification of the groups in the Regional Council, then the construction of a " common political perspective, in view of the upcoming regional congress of the Democratic Party of Sardinia ." The Democratic Party and the Progressives, whose regional leader is Cagliari Mayor Massimo Zedda, could soon merge, representing the island's most representative force of the broad camp that leads the Five Star Movement-led regional government with Five Star Movement representative Alessandra Todde. And while there's much talk on the island of cabinet reshuffles, starting with the Health Department, held ad interim by the governor, and of the shuffling of council committee presidencies midway through the legislature, for now the focus of the Democratic Party and the Progressives is the general election.
"The proposal to build a stronger common home has immediately found us staunch supporters," says Democratic Party Secretary and MP Silvio Lai. "The unity of progressive forces cannot be evoked only on the eve of elections. It must be prepared in daily work, within institutions and in the local communities, through political choices, shared battles, and a growing capacity for joint development." The party leadership's vision, however, looks to the 2027 elections: the newly elected Parliament will, in fact, be called upon, during the current legislature, to elect President Sergio Mattarella's successor .
Today, however, the priority for the Sardinian Democratic Party is to build a united center-left around a common program and credible leadership: "We are not the ones calling for primaries, and we don't consider holding them inevitable. If the law is definitively approved and the center-left decides to use them to identify its own candidate, the Democratic Party will be ready in Sardinia too. It will do so by taking care to preserve the unity of the regional coalition and by resolutely supporting the candidacy of Democratic Party secretary Elly Schlein . But today the political issue is different: opposing a flawed law and building a credible alternative to the Meloni government," concludes Lai.
