The key strategic question is whether this organisational refoundation is actually carried out, whether the charisma of the leader is eventually ‘routinised’ in a more stable organisational structure that is not completely wed to the leader’s ebbs and flows. The risk, evidently, is that if this does not take place, the party will end up perishing once the leader’s charisma starts becoming opaque and when the love of the superbase for its spokesperson turns into suspicion and resentment.
