Center-left parties look at this with different eyes to the American vote: Pd and Avs openly supported the race Kamala Harristhe 5 stars were more cautious with President Conte who did not speak out. But everyone agrees on one concern: the future of Europe and future scenarios in trade relations with America.
In the Democratic Party, Donald Trump’s victory in these terms and with these numbers is very worrying: “We hope that Europe will now take a step”, he says Giorgio Gori. And it is precisely the future of Europe that most concerns Democrats in their relations with America in matters of security, trade and Ukraine. “It will be four very difficult years for Europe and the democratic world – he says Lia Quartapelleleader of the group on the House Foreign Affairs Committee – I say this clearly from a political point of view: no one expected Trump to win with this margin: yours is a sovereignist, populist, violent right. Progressives around the world will have to figure out how to meet this challenge. It is clear that the issue of immigration played a role. This is a fact that the left must face. The left must have clear ideas on how to manage the phenomenon of immigration.” Regarding the future of Europe, Quartapelle adds: “A great challenge awaits us on fundamental issues such as security, trade and Ukraine – he says – and then there is a political challenge because we run the risk of dividing ourselves even at European level”. Alessandro Alfierimember of the dem secretariat: “Trump’s return represents a challenge for Europe and our country – he says – I hope that the most attentive of the center-right majority in Rome, once the celebrations are over, will quickly understand his meaning”.
At home 5 stars, with the president Giuseppe Conte who has a good relationship with Donald Trump and has never expressed himself clearly about the American vote in recent months, we look to the future of relations with Trump with confidence. Giuseppe Conte says: “The best wishes to Donald Trump, 47th President of the United States, due to a clear victory, also extended to the popular vote. The challenges that await the United States are many and concern us all: putting an end to ongoing wars, combating violations of international humanitarian law with the utmost firmness, opening up to a multipolar vision of new geopolitical balances, striving for fair rules for trade, avoiding the protectionist spiral of rights and counter-rights. Italy – if it manages to express vision and courage – will be able to make an important contribution due to the traditional friendship between our people and the solid alliance between our two countries, but also due to our historic role in the broader framework and the European Union structure”. But even among the 5 Stars there is still concern about the clear victory of the American tycoon supported by the far right: “Evidently Trump was able to speak more to Americans than to Democrats – he says Mariolina Castellone, Vice President Senate – Trump was good at addressing issues that worked, he talked about peace, promising a change of pace, which citizens want, he talked about returning power to the Americans. Some points of Trump’s policy scare me, for me the United States has always represented multiculturalism, hospitality and that this could change scares me – he added -. The anti-science and anti-vaccine positions scare me, I hope you reconsider.”
Great concern also emerges from the first comments from the leaders of the Green and Left Alliance. “A bad day – he says Nicola Fratoianni – with Trump, an America advances with fewer rights and fewer freedoms, an America against women, minorities and young people. Denialism wins in the face of the climate crisis. Once again, fear, poverty and war lead to the right.” To Angelo Bonelli “The Democrats are losing their relationship with the popular classes and the issue of the war in Ukraine and the arms costs faced by the American government also influenced the vote”: “Americans are tired of the war in Ukraine which is transforming several countries of the world in an economy oriented towards weapons to the detriment of funds for the working classes and the poor – says the exponent of the Green and Left Alliance – I am very worried because Trump will put an end to international climate agreements and there will be a problem in the war in Middle East, where the Israeli government will have even greater support to destroy Gaza, inflaming that entire area.”
The leader of Action Carlos Calenda focuses on the theme of Europe: “If Europe wants to continue to exist in the Trump era, it must make an immediate leap in quality. Trump will try to harm us not only by weakening the position in relation to Russia, dismantling NATO and imposing tariffs, but also by building alliances with personalities – Orban in the first place – who do not want a stronger Europe. We are alone and divided. Trump’s election confirms many things that unfortunately we already knew about the politics of this decade.”
Also for Matteo Renzi by Italia Viva Europa is the most worrying issue after Trump’s victory: “Donald clearly won the American elections and will be the 47th president of the United States. There are many reflections that the political world can and should make about this clear response from the polls, but the first moral and civil duty is to recognize the result with congratulations to the winner and the honor of arms to the defeated Harrus. I hope this is the moment of awakening for Europe.”
Very worried Ricardo Mago more Europe: “Trump’s victory is, in every respect, a disaster for rights, for the rule of law, for minorities, for freedom, for the fight against climate change. But above all it risks being a disaster for Europe, which could find itself alone having to face Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the Middle East issue, global warming, an unprecedented industrial crisis, ecological conversion , Chinese competition”.
