Giorgio Napolitano took the opportunity of a commemoration in the Senate of the figure of Gerardo Chiaromonte, senior leader of the PCI and one of the main architects of the historic compromise between the PCI and the DC, to praise the policy of broad agreements. "So, in 1976 it took courage in that unprecedented choice of broad understanding" said the Head of State pulling the ears to Pierluigi Bersani and his refusal to dialogue with the PDL to give the country a government.
But the President of the Republic also openly attacked Beppe Grillo when he argued that "certain campaigns, which are supposed to be moralizing, in reality reveal themselves in their fanaticism to be negative and destructive of politics" which requires "responsibilities that cannot be shirked".
After Napolitano's speech, the leader of the PDL, Silvio Berlusconi announced that "finally Mr Bersani has opened up and made himself available for a meeting", even if "the date has not yet been fixed".
