The alliance Verdi and the Left ha decided to postpone today’s meeting with the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta in the light of the political news that emerged yesterday. “We commonly register a profound discomfort in the country and in particular in the whole of the center-left electorate who has at heart the defense of democracy, climate and social justice – is explained by Ev and Si -. Since the conditions on which we have worked in these days have changed, they are ongoing reflections and evaluations that need more time “.
The signing of the Letta-Calenda alliance yesterday immediately produces a landslide. For some time the Democratic Party has also had a dialogue with the Italian Left and the Greens but now they are asking “to verify if the conditions for an electoral agreement are still in place”. For Nicola Fratoianni (Si), “the agreement between the Democratic Party and Action / + Europe is legitimate but not binding on the programmatic issue”. We do not like the reference to the Draghi government, which saw Si and Verdi in opposition and various passages, such as the one on the green light for regasification plants. “If there is the Draghi Agenda, I am not there” said Fratoianni in an interview with ‘La Stampa’. And a clarification between the three should have been shortly. Instead, Angelo Bonelli and Fratoianni postpone the meeting with Letta set for the afternoon, at the Nazarene.
The Democratic Party and Action with More Europe reach agreement – After days of back and forth, vetoes and ultimatums, Enrico Letta, Carlo Calenda and Benedetto Della Vedova signed the pact at the end of a two-hour meeting in the Chamber. An “electoral agreement to win against the right,” Letta said. “Today the game reopens”, reiterated Calenda. Polls in hand, the center-left knows that the center-right is by far the favorite. For this reason, Letta has always tried to build as large an alliance as possible. After the farewell to the M5s, guilty of not having voted to trust Draghi, the most courted travel companion was Calenda who, however, was cultivating the temptation to run alone, in the center, on a list with Più Europa. The meaning of the alliance was summarized by Letta: “It is not conceivable that, after Draghi, the country will pass to the government of the right and be led by Giorgia Meloni”. And Calenda: “The electoral agreement reopens the game. All the points that we had asked Letta have been accepted. The votes of Action will not go to those who have discouraged Draghi”.
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Dialogue with Verdi and the Italian Left opened. Renzi? We will leave it only to his initiatives …
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The right of tribune – The Letta-Calenda agreement provides that no party secretary and no former of FI and M5s can be candidates in single-member constituencies, the Democratic Party therefore offers a place in the proportional lists of its Democrats and Progressives “list to the leaders of parties and movements that will become part of the alliance “: the so-called right of tribune. The opportunity can tempt those who lead forces that risk not 3% and therefore not have elected. In Transatlantico, one immediately thinks of Bruno Tabacci and Luigi Di Maio, founders of Civic Commitment. And in fact, yesterday the Foreign Minister met with Letta, sowing havoc among the most loyal parliamentarians: “If he accepts the right of the tribune he will abandon us and Civic Commitment will jump” was the fear. Di Maio summons his family and the confrontation opens.
Renzi remains alone and attacks – Despite Letta and Calenda officially declare that there are no vetoes, the leader of IV now seems willing to run alone, in the center. ‘The alliance between the Democratic Party, Action and + Europe has little to do with the politics of’ we are together if we share ideas’ “, comments Matteo Renzi who, in an interview with ‘Qn’, confesses that he had with Letta only a phone call of “two minutes and forty seconds”, in which the secretary Dem told him that “he did not want Italia Viva in the coalition because he thought and thinks that we make him lose more votes than he earns. This is the maximum of the dialogue that Enrico has interpreted “he declares. And on the hypothesis of the ‘right to stand’ for Di Maio, he blurts out: ‘Letta has proposed the right to stand. What does it mean? A guaranteed place as leader of the PD for everyone party leaders in coalition. So they enter Parliament. It seems that at the moment he has accepted to take this place and run with the symbol of the PD, Luigi Di Maio. My friends, but where is dignity? “.
The meeting is the solution to untie the candidacy knot – The agreement between Calenda, Della Vedova and Letta ends after two hours of conversation. The meeting also risks starting off on the wrong foot, when, before the start of the work, a draft agreement already written by the leader of Action arrives at the Pd: a leap forward deemed inappropriate by the dem. Then, however, the dialogue that leads to understanding opens up. Among the points of the agreement, the division of single-member seats: 70% for the Democratic Party and 30% for Action + Europe. But, above all, a way is found to bypass the obstacle of “uncomfortable candidacies”. Between Calenda’s request not to nominate Fratoianni, Di Maio and Bonelli in the uninominal candidates and the intention of the Democratic Party not to veto names, there is the solution to make all the big names take a step back. “We have all shown a great sense of responsibility – said Letta – Italy is worth more than internal discussions”.
The comments – “The PD-Action alliance sheds light on the forces in the field in the next elections. The usual left will compete with the center-right and FdI. The Democratic Party, the extreme left and Action, the rib of the Democratic Party chaired by the MEP elected to the Democratic Party, Carlo Calenda. Ends the story of Action moderate party, alternative to the left all taxes, welfare and enemy of the productive class “, declares the president of Fratelli d’Italia, Giorgia Meloni. “Action throws the mask. It is the fifth column of the Democratic Party and of the left. Other than a project to create a new center, other than the Draghi government, simply at the service of those who want the patrimonial for a few more places”, he writes on Twitter Antonio Tajani, National Coordinator of Forza Italia. Yesterday’s agreement between the Pd and Calenda “is a cheerful brigade that brings together Di Maio, Fratoianni, Calenda, Gelmini, Letta, Speranza: therefore zero coherence, zero concreteness. I saw that the only point on which I am d ‘ agreement is the division of constituencies “, reiterates the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini. “Good luck to the big crowd” is the ironic joke of the leader of the M5S Giuseppe Conte.
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