Conte calls Renzi a businessman, who replies

(ANSA) – ROME, 08 SEPTEMBER – A new chapter in the clash between Giuseppe Conte and Matteo Renzi over the prospect of a united centre-left. “It is the Italian people who no longer trust Renzi,” said the M5S leader at the Fatto Quotidiano party. “We will never be able to work with Renzi and build a project with him.” With Schlein, he added, “we will certainly have a chance to talk about it. We are working with the PD and AVS and we are not starting from scratch,” but “you cannot do an alternative project with people who contaminate.” “We are in politics to fight profiteering,” “it cannot be that you appropriate the institutions to do business,” he concluded. “Giuseppe Conte is also taking care of me today – Renzi responded on social media – and he chooses the Fatto Quotidiano party to say that I am “a businessman who is getting into the lithium game.” Even lithium? Conte is clearly not doing very well, this controversy with Grillo is testing him: as soon as he is better, I invite him to a public debate in streaming, he can choose whether on TV or in court”. “Elly Schlein – he continued – has asked to build a coalition without vetoes that starts from the contents: we are ready to do it, on salaries, culture, infrastructure, innovation. The center-left is at a crossroads: if the PD / Schlein line passes, a coalition is built and the elections are won; if the Fatto Quotidiano / Conte line passes, vetoes are put in and Meloni wins. That’s all”. (ANSA).