Carlo Calenda, are you sabotaging the center?
«Exactly the opposite is true. We are consistent, the others do pile-ups.”
Why would you be consistent and Renzi and Bonino not?
«Because in the end our elected representatives will all end up in the same group, Renew Europe. While Maraio will end up in the PSE, Bonino in the Liberals, Cuffaro in the EPP.”
She Cuffaro resurrected it in the media.
«Io?»
Attacking him on the 140 thousand votes he would control.
“But does it seem normal to you that a person convicted of mafia crime can make such a statement?”.
Why does Bonino ally himself with him?
«I understand that you say it is a radical tradition. They already did it with Berlusconi. They are convinced that their ideal purity will not be affected. I don’t think so and I wouldn’t have given space to Cuffaro.”
And what game are you playing?
«A list of competent people, made up of candidates who know English, are coherent, capable of making an impact in Europe. Do you know that in Europe we are third to last in terms of incidence?
What do you mean by incidence?
«The ability to influence measures. And do you know why we can’t do it? Because we tend to nominate characters, stars, when it would be enough to send the good ones.”
He announced the candidacy of Federico Pizzarotti.
«Someone who was a very good mayor of Parma, and who by breaking with +Europa brings with him 40 local administrators and over 1300 members. And Daniele Nahum, who left the Milan Democratic Party, fed up with the contradictions of his party, will also run with us.”
What contradictions?
«Of a party that supports sending weapons to Ukraine and then nominates Marco Tarquinio and Cecilia Strada, who are against it. And Giorgio Gori, who is in favor. He is the Democratic Party of but also.”
Will you be able to exceed 4 percent?
«As can be seen from the recent entries, and from the new arrivals, Bonetti and Rosato, Azione is attractive. I remember the same skepticism when I ran for mayor of Rome, they said I would get 8 percent, but instead we got twenty.”
With Renzi and Bonino the threshold was within reach.
«We cannot think in summations. Emma Bonino preferred Mastella to Cottarelli. And he nominates Librandi, a Putin supporter, while we side with Alessandro Tommasi, the founder of Will, General Camporini, and Mario Raffaelli, an authority in international cooperation.”
And what is its coherence? With Soru in Sardinia, on the left in Abruzzo, with the right in Basilicata.
«We always try to work with the opposition. But in Basilicata it was not possible because Conte vetoed it.”
And so you will support Bardi.
«A decent pro-European, he is certainly not Truzzu, the Trux, the candidate of the right in Sardinia».
What will your list be called?
“We are Europeans, like in 2019, when I ran with the Democratic Party and got 280 thousand votes.”
What are your thoughts on the Puglia case?
«I have always thought badly of Emiliano, so much so that we ran against him».
What do you think of Conte’s attack on the Democratic Party?
“I think he will be the Dracula of the Democratic Party.”
You have always been hostile to the alliance with the M5S.
«Conte plays his cynical game. The prime ministerial candidate wants to do it himself. He will keep the Democratic Party on tenterhooks until the end and then he will set his conditions.”
What would you do in Schlein’s place?
«I would give up Conte. Also because it doesn’t exist in the North.”
How can the secretary think she can do it alone?
«If I were you I would go alone, trying to recover the lost consensus. And when the distances have been re-established a bit at that point Conte will return to his place, as he deserves.”
Put that way it seems easy.
«But I don’t see any alternatives. We cannot remain dependent on her whims.”
The truth is that the right marches united, on the left we are divided.
«But if it stays with Conte, the Democratic Party will remain entangled in the web of an indifferent man. A man of the right. And I don’t hope so.”
What is she?
“A liberal”.
But he tends to break ties, he also did it with Renzi.
“You can’t work with him.”
She also has a nice character.
“But I try to be coherent, I’m in the opposition, while his people helped elect La Russa president of the Senate under the table.”
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