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Calenda doesn't want Renzi on Bonino's anti-sovereign list but vetoes and resentments don't make a policy

By rejecting Bonino's opening to Renzi for the formation of a purposeful list for the European elections, Calenda demonstrates that he has lost the luster of when he was Minister of Development and that he is putting chicken-coop squabbles before a far-sighted vision of the future in alternative to the right

Calenda doesn't want Renzi on Bonino's anti-sovereign list but vetoes and resentments don't make a policy

In the governments of Matteo Renzi need Paolo Gentiloni Carlo Calenda he was an excellent Minister of Economic Development, certainly the best of the 2000s and his plan Industry 4.0 it also set a precedent in Europe and is still regretted by businesses today. But Calenda was also an excellent candidate for mayor in the last municipal elections in Rome, obtaining a more than honorable 20% of the vote. For some time now, however, he has lost his bearings, he first argued with Enrico Letta, then with Emma Bonino and above all with Matteo Renzi and every day he proves that he doesn't have what it takes to be a leader. No vision and lots of backyard squabbles. The latest example arrived in recent days after the interesting proposal launched in "la Repubblica" by Emma Bonino, the leader of + Europe, to establish a list of objectives on the United States of Europe that brings together all the liberal democratic forces (from +Europa to Action e Italy Viva) and that it is open to Pd (but not to the populists of Five stars) in view of the next European elections. An anti-sovereignist coalition that starts "a great European revolution, including an institutional one" and that ensures that "no liberal democratic and federalist vote is wasted to stem the sovereignist right". An enlightened and reasonable proposal that looks to the future in the name of RenewEurope. One would have expected a convinced adhesion from Renzi (which in fact occurred) and Calenda, but the Action secretary was unable to resist his hatred and resentment towards the leader of Italia viva, with respect to whom he has a obvious inferiority complex, and did not hesitate to veto the former prime minister's membership with arguments that not even the most hardened Grillini would use. “We will stay as far away from Italia Viva as possible”, and therefore yes to the list with Bonino but not with Renzi, only to contradict himself by recognizing that “if the votes for the Liberal Democrats do not grow, the alternative (to the right) will never win”. But to win you need to have a vision, put aside the chicken coop squabbles and look to the future. Qualities that Calenda must have lost somewhere: down from the tower.

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