Elly Schlein’s “I find it an ideological left, when she espouses Giuseppe Conte’s theses” or pursues themes that don’t interest people. And in this case she is Giorgia Meloni’s best ally, “said Matteo Renzi during the White Zone on Rete Quattro. The leader of Italia Viva is clear: “The more the left is radicalized, the more the right is strengthened”. On the majority side, the director of the Riformista observes that “Meloni said during the election campaign that he would not take the Mes and instead will ratify it. This thing will happen. And I would oppose this, I would oppose the fact that in Europe those who have cheated, they went against us, it’s not Schlein’s friends but Meloni’s friends… Those who have spoken out against Italy are Poland and Hungary…”, argues Renzi.
In the background, the critical situation in France, with riots in the banlieues of many cities that set the country ablaze after the police killed a boy of North African origin. Can what is happening in France happen in Italy? “I think not. No, at least for the moment absolutely not. But we need to work on some points,” explains Renzi. “We must be on the side of President Macron, who is choosing a hard path. He has no alternatives. In France there is often the phenomenon of protests but what is happening now has no connection with the killing of Nahel, it is an organized revolt, managed and financed by crime. First it gets right, law and order, then we discuss it. There is certainly a social issue, but in the name of the social issue you don’t go and kill a firefighter”, says the former prime minister who gives right to the line of the French president. “The extreme right and the extreme left have a convergent interest, they have every interest in fanning the flames to smash everything and play it with each other”, observes Renzi.
During the Monday 3 July episode of the program hosted by Giuseppe Brindisi, Renzi returned to the controversies that followed the death of Silvio Berlusconi: “I had a fluctuating relationship with him” but “always one of great mutual esteem. He never voted for confidence. I always reminded him of it jokingly: ‘President, you trusted Monti in Letta, but not me’, and he laughed… We also went into confrontation, as in the famous pact of the Nazarene when we broken, but on my part there has always been a great human respect. A human respect that was lacking a little when at the funeral someone attacked President Berlusconi even when he was dead… One may not agree with Berlusconi but the human respect cannot fail”, commented Renzi who recalls an anecdote about the Cavaliere: “He was an artist, he once said to me ‘how nice that we did the job act together…’. I reminded him ‘president, the job act I did it’ and he said it’s not like that and laughed… Finally it ended with a laugh. Berlusconi was fantastic.”
