A long interview with Elly Schlein. The main guest of the December 12th episode of DiMartedì, La7’s evening talk show, is the secretary of the Democratic Party, who is immediately cornered by the host, Giovanni Floris: “You can’t blame others if they don’t vote for her, why don’t they turn to you?”. The dem leader is initially taken aback and then tries to think of an answer: “This is true, but I believe that on the one hand there is government propaganda, on the other the reality of the facts, also certified by Eurostat, which says that 63 % of Italian families struggle to make ends meet.”
“In the end, voters will lose faith in the Meloni government and in the center-right in general. And at that point the center-left will have some possibilities. It will take some time, because this maneuver where they cut public health and pensions, the very ones who had it in for Fornero, shows that they are betraying all their promises, so in my opinion the Italians will not be fooled – the gist of the speech is Schlein -. They are betraying every promise they made and they will then pay for this also in terms of consent.”
The number one of the Democratic Party also addresses the issue relating to Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to have Mario Draghi as president of the European Commission: “The Democratic Party is part of the family of European socialists, so we will choose together which is our candidate to lead the European Commission. It doesn’t seem to me that Draghi belongs to the European socialist family. In this match I strongly believe that he serves one of our candidates. Last time this fact was betrayed, because Ursula von der Leyen (always pushed by Macron, ed.) was not the People’s Party candidate. If we want a more democratic and effective union and above all we want the citizens’ vote to count, we must put forward our candidates and support them.”
