Choose Your Partners

Bersani executed a lovely two-step today, a step to the left, a step to the right, no funding for the F-35 stealth fighter jet,  but a little campaign do-si-do with Matteo Renzi to assure the centrists that he's dancing to their tune. It's harder than it looks, and Bersani executes like the pro he is. But who will be Nichi Vendola's partner? Ingroia is waiting on the sidelines, but my guess is that he will remain a wallflower, even if Nichi has to dance all by himself. As he remarked to Ingroia in a sort of open challenge yesterday: some on the left are there to make pronouncements, but his goal is to govern. You can say that again says Pier Luigi Bersani.