Sala against Renzi, dispute over the new centre: “Leader IV is infederable”, “Let him be less touchy”

The clash between them ignites Matteo Renzi e Beppe Sala. The former criticized the latter on the hypothesis of the role of federation of an organic moderate area of ​​the centre-left, suggesting that he should rather deal with the security of Milan. “I often read statements by PD leaders who explain to those outside the PD what we should do. I would quietly suggest to these budding statesmen to worry about their own party, not the others. If Beppe Sala he wants to lend a hand to the reformist center – overcoming the previous crushes for the Greens or Di Maio – he is welcome. I believe that the most concrete way to help is to keep Milan safer than it is today. Security is a central value in the reformist centre’s project, as is the no to new taxes and attention to the Catholic world. I don’t think so Schlein, Bonelli, Fratoianni are recognized by these people,” he said Matteo Renziinterviewed by Future in recent days.

Words to which Sala now responds: “It is clear that the federation is a nice definition that the media likes a lot. I have never proposed myself as a federation. But if we want to talk a little more seriously, I believe that Renzi is infederable. sense that it is very difficult to imagine him becoming a federation – comments the mayor on the sidelines of the commemoration at the Shrine of the Fallen – And in any case federating Renzi would be something that goes beyond my human capacity. Compared to his criticisms, I don’t want to respond two reasons. I am one of the millions of Italians who believed in Renzi and I must remember this, the second reason is that if I start to debate and respond then we end up in a daily controversy, which perhaps means playing his game but not his mine”, adds Sala.

But apparently the controversy seems to have already exploded. And it also ends in the middle Carlo Calenda and contacts between the two for a new project at the center without Matteo Renzi. “No. We are talking because in the end I listen to you all a little. He now has a conference which is an important moment. I know his ideas, he knows my ideas. Certainly there is mutual respect, I think, so we continue to talk to us and at the moment, however, there is a lot of work to be done. It is a problem of party formula but of ideas and probably also of new people because otherwise we won’t be able to do it.”

Then answering the questions of reporters who asked him if the center’s project had the next political elections as its horizon, the Milanese mayor replied: “I believe that we should think about future politics in any case. Here too, many exponents of the political world every now and then they hypothesize early elections. If I have to say my opinion, I think it is very unlikely that we will go to early elections.” Today, Sala insists, “there is an extreme turnover in parliamentarians, it is clear that most of the parameters make one mandate, maximum two mandates, and I don’t understand what interest they have in shortening their situation and the privilege they have obtained through the votes they have collected, they will all want to go to the end.” Therefore, concludes Beppe Sala, “I don’t believe that there will be early elections and therefore I believe that the center-left must prepare for 2027”.

Matteo Renzi did not remain silent. And with a note he responds to the Milanese mayor, reiterating what has already been explained in his interview: “I read of Beppe Sala’s slight resentment for my interview with Future. I have known him for a decade and I believe I have always offered him the widest collaboration in recent years, from the Expo to the Pact for Milan, from the capital law to infrastructure funds. I said and repeat that if Beppe Sala wants to lend a hand in building the center – after some disagreements between the European greens and Maio – he is welcome. I’m really happy about it. I added that the best way to help the reformists choose the centre-left by abandoning the centre-right in my opinion is to work well at an administrative level and guarantee security in Milan – continues the IV leader – I don’t understand the polemical reaction of my friend Beppe, of whom I remind who was right to believe in me. At least as much as I believed in him by confirming him at the helm of the Expo in 2014 and choosing him as a candidate in 2016. If Beppe’s plan is to be a federation I wish him good luck in his job and I suggest he be very patient and not touchy. We will be at his side to have more security in Milan, a topic that is deeply felt and which is fundamental for the growth of the entire country. At a time when America is following the White House with bated breath, the Middle East risks Iranian escalation, Europe is suffering in Valencia, I avoid any controversy and wish the mayor of Milan good work”, concludes Renzi.