Elly Schlein challenges Rai but fills Rai schedules. The marathon referendum between down-at-heel megaphones and big cars

Marco Pannella, forgive us, it's impossible. The revolution can't happen because we all know each other and we all go to Rai. The journalist, a leftist, who should be covering the protest against Tele Meloni? He's about to enter, here, at Via Teulada 66, a Rai guest. Elly Schlein who is demonstrating against the Rai referendum silence? She's filmed by the Tgr Rai cameras, she's finishing her day at Tg2 Post and today she's doing Cinque Minuti and Porta a Porta. Ole. The most, handsome, beautiful, Francesco Rutelli, who arrives, by chance, apologizes, "they're waiting for me at Fatti Vostri".

A big car, black, black, stops and who gets out? The director Michele Guardì, 53 years in Rai, because the Jobs Act may be abolished, but the pensioner is always Act. These are radical, Pannella days, from Elly goes to town, like Caterina, the marathon of "shame", to repair, says Schlein, "the mistakes of our side", The old PD is now more spat on than Salvini and the most desired parking lot of the third term.

11 am, PD picket in Teulada, and in Rai offices, all over Italy; 6 pm, event in Rome, in Piazza Vittorio, with Schlein, Conte, Bonelli and Fratoianni, where you can inhale the intense scent of wandering herbs (yes, we understand each other). Demonstration against Rai's silence, on the referendums because, says Schlein, from Teulada, "Italians must know, must be informed". Are you sure? The megaphone is a shabby one (comrade Ugo Sposetti, former communist treasurer, think about it, buy a proper one) the Rai official, with an almost big car, suggests to the PD secretary, and friends, to move: "Guys, it won't pass. I have to go". The Meloni government is hurting itself, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, a minister like Luca Ciriani, with an interview with the Gazzettino, two pages (requested) earthquakes Salvini, a governor from the Northern League like Max Fedriga, the archduke, is ready to ask for a loyalty pact with Meloni (but the prime minister has a fever) and maybe even a cabinet reshuffle, okay, some things of no small importance happen, but here we all go, with the big car (who has one) to follow the secretary, into the city. Viale Mazzini, the Rai headquarters, has been abandoned and it looks like the hotel from Shining with the ghost of Mario Orfeo who goes around at night with the tricycle. Problem, where to demonstrate? And above all, with whom? On Monday morning?

The PD secretary forms a handful of volunteers that Macron can only dream of. Challenging Rai is Stefano Graziano, er mejo, the group leader in Vigilanza Rai (Vigilanza that hasn't worked for six months) but as reinforcements are added Marianna Madia (we meet her at the height of the Cassation, on foot because she doesn't have the big car) Andrea Casu, the anti-Elon Musk, and then also Michela Di Biase, the Hepburn of the left, who has breakfast in Teulada. Marta Bonafoni, Elly's Fazzolarina , would already like to organize a surprise birthday party for the secretary, but duty calls. She is there too, in the front row, as head of structure. In short, the PD presence is small, scarce, but in these cases you shouldn't look at the share but at Pannellian experimentation. The deputy Marco Meloni, the other Meloni of the PD, shows up with the shiny black moccasin; Claudio Mancini, the deputy mayor of Rome, has a vest that says Third Pole, or perhaps, polo player; Filippo Sensi is slow to arrive like Franco Battiato's spring: "But I'm always there in thought". The militants aren't there, but on the other hand there is the trade unionist Giulia of the Cgil who informs her comrade: "This afternoon we also have a commemoration". In less than twenty minutes we count at least seven "big cars" because the real issue is not Agcom, with its data, but the big cars of Rai that whizz by at 280 miles an hour! Schlein, very clever, who has the big car, for safety reasons, asks the driver to leave her on the corner because the big car looks a lot like the director general of Rai San Marino. Between us: there are only us, journalists, Journalai (you can find the originals on Instagram) and the Rai employees who make phone calls outside the balconies. The best, Graziano, takes the megaphone and says that the “government does not implement the Media Freedom Act” but while he says it, Enzo Foschi, secretary of the Rome PD, unrolls a sheet (perhaps the same one used by Riccardo Magi) with the phrase, written with Uniposca: “No Telemeloni”. It seems like we are back at school, during self-management. It is all so managed, so fast, that the word passes to the secretary Elly-Pannella who assures us: “We will do a marathon to have correct information, because, you must know, that from August 8th Italy will be in default for not having approved the Freedom Act”. The Lega Nord’s Claudio Borghi, if he felt like it, and who still laughs at our pieces (on the failure to approve the ESM), could also smoke vagrant herbs. A rascal of a journalist asks Madia: “But how will you vote?” and Madia, who is with the reformists of the Democratic Party, those who do not want to abolish the Jobs Act (which Landini later defines as a “crazy law”) explains: “I will vote yes to two of the five questions, because the Jobs Act is a good reform”. The stray grass is starting to have its effect, alienating. At 6 pm, all the time, in Piazza Vittorio, the beer is free, offered by the secretary Landini (but how much is he spending on the referendum?) the hat, the canvas bag, these too are free. It ends with Giuseppe Conte, on stage, who speaks last to say: “Let's not let ourselves be fooled by this government that is with the banks and the strong powers”, with Schlein repeating: “What do they know about living flesh! What do they know”. The most effective is Nicola Fratoianni: “Think of La Russa and vote”. On June 8th and 9th everyone to the polls to choose: the big car or the tricycle?

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