Development Minister Carlo Calenda takes the field: he will join the Democratic Party. The news didn't surprise most, being a rumor that had already been circulating in the corridors of the Nazzareno for some time. His relationship with the next ex secretary Matteo Renzi was not the most serene: clashes and heated debates at first, attempts to mend in the last year.
Calend therefore is a candidate to be the new name of the Democratic Party, after Renzi's press conference on Monday evening turned future scenarios upside down.
The Roman minister entrusted the announcement of his decision to Twitter, and immediately afterwards, reactions but above all congratulations arrived from some of the main Dem exponents, including Prime Minister Gentiloni. A few years ago we would have had to wait for press conferences and press office notes: today it only takes two hours to start hypothesizing what the future of a center-left could be that today, after one of the greatest political failures in history, needs to start over from scratch.
8.28: Calenda takes the field
We must not create another party but work to revive what is there. I'm going to sign up tomorrow @pdnetwork. https://t.co/5Jem2aDZfO
- Carlo Calenda (@CarloCalenda) March 6, 2018
8.52 am: not even half an hour and the premier welcomes the news with social jubilation
Thanks Carl! https://t.co/OIpELxF36p
- Paolo Gentiloni (@PaoloGentiloni) March 6, 2018
9.18 am: The environment minister, the first to comment on the tragic results during the night of 4 March, thanks Calenda
The right choice. Thank you @carlocalonda https://t.co/fPMheMEu3G
— Maurizio Martina (@maumartina) March 6, 2018
9.17: Renzi's wrecker and right-hand man laughs it off. There is talk of a restart, Calenda may be the right man even for those who have always supported the outgoing secretary
I'm preparing the welcoming committee! That good news @CarloCalenda! It's off to a great start https://t.co/TsViwNcvh9
— Matteo Richetti (@MatteoRichetti) March 6, 2018
10.08: The Minister for Relations with Parliament rejoices at the news
It is very nice and important that in a difficult moment there are those who want to give their contribution to the Democratic Party, to its pluralism and its strengthening. Welcome to @CarloCalenda.
— Anna Finocchiaro (@FinocchiaroAnna) March 6, 2018
But in the evening Calenda warned: “If the Democratic Party allies with the M5S, mine will be the shortest membership in history. No to showdown in the party. The leader is there and it is Gentiloni”.
