“The Democratic Party has had an objective for a year” which is to “rebuild a strong identity and an alternative to these right-wing parties. I wouldn’t want it to be just my problem” but I would like it to be shared with the other oppositions. “The opponent is this government, it’s very simple.” The secretary of the Democratic Party said it Elly Schlein interviewed by the Foreign Press on relations with the leader of the M5s Giuseppe Conte. “There are certainly some problems” but – he added -, looking at regional and administrative ones, it is clear that “the construction of the alternative is not dead, fortunately for Italy”, he added.
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It was discussed whether the Democratic Party would survive after the primaries, and instead, “we are back above 20 percent, the number of members has increased”, in many capitals “it is the first party”, it is a “healthy” party and in Italy he is “the linchpin of the alternative to the right,” Schlein continued.
Giuseppe Conte’s words on the Democratic Party? “We continue to work on building an alternative to the right, also with the strength of our community. This community deserves respect and I don’t need advice or anything else to do what I was elected to do.”
With respect to the local elections in Bari, “I said that we are alongside Leccese, a mirrored person, to move forward. And we said ‘we are with you even if you want to attempt a dialogue for a united path’. They are discussing”.
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“A government-controlled subsidiary selling the country’s second largest press agency to a majority parliamentarian” are things that “are not even seen in Hungary”, said the dem secretary.
2024 card dedicated to Berlinguer
“For the 2024 membership we came up with the idea of a tribute, 40 years after his death, to a personality whose commitment and memory inspire us: ‘House by house, street by street’. The card is a tribute to the Pd to Berlinguer 40 years after his death”. Schlein announced this to the foreign press by showing the new card with the face of the PCI leader.
From work to healthcare, on to the campaign for the European elections
The predominant color is red, with the slogans written in white: a graphic that closely resembles that which characterizes the PSE, the European family of the Democratic Party. Schlein launches the campaign for the European elections from the headquarters of the Foreign Press in Rome and expresses it through a series of dichotomies: “Clean air, not poisons”; “The sea, not a cemetery”; “A family, not a target.”
The starting point is, however, “The Europe we want”. That is, explains Schlein, “a more social Europe that takes the lead in the necessary ecological transition. The right”, explains the dem leader, “are still in a transition phase of the climate emergency. Think of the increasingly frequent extreme events in our country. We must accompany families and businesses in the necessary changes, otherwise there will be no propaganda that matters. It is this government that has decided to remove incentives for young farmers. We keep the social issue and the climate issue together, we will do ours independently proposals when there is a need to correct the aim of some decisions taken. Faced with today’s challenges, from the ecological transition to the fight against inequalities, we need not to deny the European space, as the right-wing parties do, but to fill that space with democracy, overcoming the unanimity system”.
Another focus of the Pd campaign is that of healthcare: “We think that on the healthcare issue there is no room for propaganda. Since Meloni’s right-wing party has been in government, healthcare spending has constantly fallen and is returning to pre-pandemic levels. Yes he waits a year and a half to have a gastroscopy, two years to have a mammogram. The right defunds public health, does not unblock the turnover and empties the departments”, recalls the secretary who continues: “Clean air, not poisons: to this. the investments of the Pnrr and the Green Deal should be useful. emissions are bad for the environment but they are also bad for the health of citizens”.
And again: “The sea, not a cemetery: we managed to get the idea of a European Mare Nostrum into the program of European socialists. We must prevent people from drowning. I want to add that we continue to fight for solidarity on migration policies European Union means opening access routes to all European countries. We must build a legal alternative to human trafficking. We will continue to insist on a real overcoming of the Dublin regulation. We voted against the European pact on immigration asylum seekers and for individual countries. For us, those who enter Italy enter Europe and it is not true solidarity to pay twenty thousand euros for each person you choose not to welcome. It is a pact that provides for a series of measures such as the detention of minors with the obligation to take biometric data starting from the age of six. We are against this security drift”. For this reason Schlein reiterates: “The Democratic Party will no longer accept any type of support for the Libyan coast guard”. The rights chapter also consists of the ‘family’ item.
“A family, not a target: for us there are many types of families and they all deserve respect and recognition of their rights, especially when we talk about girls and boys. We will continue to stand by the children of same-parent families. Europe cannot retreat on this ground. I found last week’s vote in the European Parliament significant and important: abortion is a fundamental right that is still too little recognized in this country. We must guarantee a quota of non-objecting doctors in every facility.” The close current situation finally leads the Democratic Party to say: “A Europe for peace, not war: the debate of recent months shows that it is not an obvious phrase. We have insisted on this position for many months and continue to insist. It is a dynamic that is especially worrying for the consequences on the civilian victims of these wars. As European federalists, we are the ones who are fighting for common defense. We cannot create a common defense by creating an empty box within the European Commission, with a commissioner without powers without wallet”.
Conte: “The dems should relax, I won’t ask for leadership”
“If we overcome the Democratic Party in the European elections I will not use it as a reason for leadership, here, I announce it from here: the world of the Democratic Party should relax. Leadership, for me, comes from the values that you pursue”, he replies Giuseppe Conte to the microphones of Radio Ondaverde, from Vibo Valentia.
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