The leader of Action: «The alliance was a Union of Prodi bonsai. The Democratic Party does not have the courage to represent the Social Democrats “
Carlo Calenda, yesterday you informed Dario Franceschini of yours decision, because he didn’t call Enrico Letta?
«I had already informed Enrico the day before. He knew, because I told him, that I wasn’t going to be in the covenant if a pact had been signed with Fratoianni, Bonelli and Di Maio
which in fact made the coalition a bunch ”.
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Letta claims she broke why Calenda can only ally with Calenda.
“In truth, I did everything to be allied with Letta, including proposing to him to divide the boarding schools 90% to them and 10% to us.”
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She thinks that Letta preferred them Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli?
“I think he found himself facing a crossroads that the Democratic Party has faced many times in its history. The one between a reformist choice or an alliance in which to put everything and the opposite of everything. In the end he chose this second path. And this was Letta’s mistake ».
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Do you mean that the secretary of the Democratic Party did not want to leave his left flank uncovered?
«The Democratic Party, from the arrival of the 5 Stars onwards, always has the anxiety of having everything inside. The Democratic Party does not have the courage to represent the Social Democrats: it must have left-wing populists inside. Something inexplicable to me. And in doing so in this legislature they committed suicide ».
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But the dem have said no to the 5 Star Movement.
«They simply replaced the M5S with Fratoianni. Which makes no sense because Fratoianni and the 5 Stars think the same way about everything, except that one has 2% and the others 10%. It is not clear what the logic is. Then we might as well keep the 10th ».
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But the Democratic Party argues that this is the only way to beat the right.
«The Democratic Party could choose between being a grouped” against “and making a serious political project, in the end it chose the grouping against. And the crowd against will lose. Not only that: it will never give an alternative to the Italians. Trying to put together all the former 5 stars possible and imaginable, we, Fratoianni, Bonelli, is an operation that you cannot explain to the Italians. You cannot explain that to defend the Constitution you make a pact with people you know you will never govern. Nobody can understand it ».
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The Democratic Party accuses him of having broken his word, of having torn up an agreement already signed.
“At the beginning of this journey, what I said to Enrico was that I was very opposed to the idea of all these entering and that in any case if he wanted them he had to be able to control and govern them. Instead, from the first minute they began to say: the Draghi agenda does not exist, we don’t want waste-to-energy plants, neither regasifiers, Calenda needs to be re-educated
. So how were we doing in the elections? Should I have spent my days defending myself from the attacks of the left that Letta wanted in the coalition even if they have discouraged Draghi 54 times more than the 5 Stars? How did I explain to the voters Atlanticism with Fratoianni who voted against the enlargement of NATO? This alliance would have been the Prodi Union in Bonsai format. Such a coalition would not have led the Italians to vote. We would have had many abstentions and we would have been heavily defeated by the right wing ».
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Actually the head of Letta’s secretariat Marco Meloni she says that it is she, with her tear, who hands the country over to the right.
«The choice of giving the country to the right was made by Enrico Letta when he first sat down with Fratoianni and Bonelli, and then with Di Maio, to build a coalition that no one in the earthly sphere can vote with conviction. And I think Letta will get very hurt ».
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So he decided on the traumatic tear …
«I founded Action when the Democratic Party allied itself with the M5S, now I am leaving the Democratic Party while it re-raises itself with 5 stars which are now called the Italian Left but they are exactly the same thing. I could not fail in consistency, seriousness and, let me say, even a bit of idealism. No one will bring politics back to young people and abstentionists simply by saying that the fascists are on the other side. This is a wishful thinking. The Italians have heard these statements too many times and have seen that those who first clashed immediately afterwards agreed. The country is really tired of this bad habit. The heaps will not work either on the right or on the left. ”
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Did you warn Emma Bonino in time of your intention to break with the Democratic Party?
“We had long discussions with Emma about this. We talked and talked about it, even with Della Vedova. There was a moment in which I found a bit of confusion on that side, because Bonino did very clear interviews saying no to Fratoianni and Bonelli, explaining that he did not want in the coalition those who voted no confidence in Draghi and then however did not I know what happened: he made a different decision. I have full respect for Emma, for her choices, for Della Vedova’s, they are friends, we shared a piece of the road together, unfortunately at a certain point we were no longer able to move forward ».
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Calenda, after this break with the Democratic Party what is your next move?
“Now my main goal is to start the collection of signatures and at the same time try to have clarity on the question of the logo, because the law provides that if you have an elected member of the European Parliament you do not have to present the signatures, however since it is the first time that made a rule of this type the interpretation is so ballerina that nothing is understood. In any case, we begin the collection of signatures today »».
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If he allied himself with Matteo Renzi he would not need to collect signatures …
“No, if I went with Renzi I wouldn’t need it.”
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Is it possible that you stand together in an alliance?
“We will certainly meet and talk”
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Apart from your quarrels, it shouldn’t be difficult to join forces, you are still politically closer to Renzi than to Fratoianni …
“Absolutely yes, there is no doubt about that.”
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August 8, 2022 (change August 8, 2022 | 07:41)
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