In a long interview with "Corriere della Sera", the president of the competing publishing group L'Espresso, Carlo De Benedetti, renews his appreciation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi ("It was a cynically violent but useful element of change and opened a younger political class, less tied to history, lobbies, traditions and more free and unscrupulous in their way of thinking”) but warns him that, if the Italicum does not change, he will vote No in the constitutional referendum. Also because with the Italicum "Renzi runs the risk of becoming the Fassino of Italy" as "in the ballot the second and third-place finishers team up against the first: it's not politics, it's arithmetic".
De Benedetti maintains that “the failure of the elites helps the 5 Stars” of which he has no positive opinion: “M5S disputes what exists but it doesn't know what it wants. They are preparing to become a government class and Di Maio wants basic income, but who pays for it? In reality, Di Maio has no experience and does not tell me how he finances it and arouses a certain distrust in me".
Finally, De Benedetti urges Renzi to "nationalize the banks that can't make it" by not caring about the stakes of the EU, as well as the 3% ceiling for investments in knowledge.
