“The 5 stars are in a very deep crisis that will not be resolved by the arrival of Giuseppe Conte. I’m happy for Conte, but I don’t think he’s enough to keep the grill experience together and put it back on its feet. If anything, Conte’s choice to accept the leadership of the movement makes the masochistic politics of the Democratic Party and Zingaretti even more evident. They sacrificed themselves on Conte’s altar, they described me as a class enemy for having brought down the government led by him, they indicated him as the head of the Giallorossi coalition and now they find him leader of the 5 stars !? Leader of a competing party. I have no words. I think it was the most spectacular own goal in the history of politics. Not even an own-goal artist like Comunardo Niccolai would have been able to. In fact, this year Zingaretti will be given the Comunardo Niccolai prize ”. Matteo Renzi says this in an interview with the Giornale.
The former prime minister returns to the controversy over his relations with Saudi Arabia, far from making amends for anything. “They are exploiting the Khashoggi tragedy because they have nothing else to cling to in Italy,” says Renzi, adding that “on the merits I replied in all the newspapers” and his behavior “is perfectly lawful, public and legitimate. The Saudi question – he says – was posed by that well-known statesman Di Battista, one who appreciated Maduro and defined Obama as a coup leader and does not understand that Arabia is the bulwark against fundamentalism. And obviously from the most resentful of the Democratic Party. I think I’m their obsession ”.
“I feel a climate of hatred towards me, anger – he explains – for what happened. A desire for revenge on the part of those who considered the Conte government a point of arrival to be defended at all costs. And yet, despite all these signs of hostility to which I was subjected when I sent the Conte home, well, I would do it again not once, not ten, but a hundred times. Because the only compass I pursue is the interest of the country and that political balance did not safeguard it. So they can send me all the threats, in clear or implied, they want, they don’t scratch me if I think I’m right. I’m not afraid”.
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