Veltroni: “The wide shot? I’m interested in what is planted there and with the populist flower it loses its identity”

Tension between the Democratic Party and the M5S is still high after the ‘rift’ in Bari Giuseppe Conte who chose to no longer participate in the primaries with the Dems following the investigation into vote buying. Thus blowing up the wide field. “I interrupted that experience” as secretary of the Democratic Party, he explains Walter Veltroni, “because I realized that there were no longer the conditions to create a large mass reformist party, capable of aspiring to reach a majority of Italians. I can say this: there is a lot of discussion about the broad field but more than the size of the field I am interested in what is planted in this field, in what flowers we expect to see bloom because that is what matters for citizens, not the size of the field, but the beauty of the political, programmatic, flower. cultural, values ​​that we are capable of generating”, says the former mayor of Rome, guest of ‘In half an hour’ on Rai3. “If this flower withers or fades and is not able to express that wonderful democratic adventure that is reformism, if this flower is characterized by populism, moderatism, it loses its identity. So today in my opinion the issue is not how big it is the size of the area but what you want to do”, observes Veltroni.

The shock is agitating the Dems and creating divisions. For the reformist area of Stefano Bonaccinithe about-face of Giuseppe Conte in Bari he is a spy on the unreliability of the M5Stelle. Yesterday Conte talking about Elly Schlein on TV she dictated her conditions: “If she wanted to keep faith with the commitment made in March 2023 when she was confirmed as secretary with the cry of “I will free the Democratic Party from capos and caciques”, she would find the greatest partner in me”.

But it is not just the Bari affair that creates embarrassment in the Democratic Party. Also the candidacy of Ilaria Salis at the European elections it caused internal divisions. “I think it’s absurd that in this country we are divided in indignation for an Italian girl who is forced into the condition she is in, that on this right and left cannot find the possibility of using the same language – comments Veltroni – In my opinion it is incomprehensible, just as the difficulty in using the word anti-fascism is incomprehensible, they are those cohesive elements of the national identity of a democratic country, in which we respect and legitimize each other”, he adds, explaining that these shortcomings “contribute to a certain disaffection for the politics of the people”.