“He had a difficult summer but Iv’s grades…” –

Tests of broad field in the center-left, the leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi intervenes with an interview with Corriere della Sera that speaks of the most recalcitrant of possible allies, Giuseppe Conte. “He has had a difficult summer. He is caught between the anvil Grillo, who could distrust him, and the hammer Travaglio, who dreams of him as an ally of Meloni. He has an open account with me because he considers me ‘guilty’ of his replacement with Draghi: a responsibility that I willingly take on, with great pride. But now the issue is the future. And for the future we need votes, not vetoes”.

And to the former prime minister’s accusation that Italia Viva is causing the coalition to lose votes, Renzi replies: “The opposite is true. Our votes are not many, but they are decisive in marginal constituencies, where the result depends on 1-2%. This is why Elly Schlein is right to keep everyone together and those who veto are wrong: Enrico Letta’s failure in 2022 should be enough to understand that those who ally themselves win, not those who nitpick their fellow travelers. Meloni understood the value of our move: it is no coincidence that she spent August having her own people attack us”.

According to the leader of the 5 Star Movement, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are equal… «Conte’s position on foreign policy is embarrassing for the Democratic Party but also for part of the 5 Star Movement or the radical left. Those who call themselves progressives cannot stand with Trump against Harris. Bonaccini explained this in his newspaper yesterday and I appreciated the statements of many local administrators, starting with the mayor of Bari Vito Leccese. The Chicago convention is the model for overcoming divisions», «to win, even radically different stories are brought together. In the United States, they have understood this and are playing it out. In Italy, we are trying: if we don’t succeed, Meloni will win again with the Salvinis, the Vannaccis, the gunmen and the bad company».

Did the accusations of having conspired with the magistrates against Arianna Meloni embitter her? “No. Jokes never embitter me. At most they don’t make me laugh, like this one. We only understood afterwards that attacking me on the conspiracy was yet another weapon of mass distraction, or rather of a farm: it must have been a difficult August in Puglia for the prime minister’s family. But obviously I had nothing to do with it.”