When everything seemed to say the opposite, and a few days before the presentation of the lists for the Policies, Carlo Calenda ed Enrico Letta they find an agreement between Pd and Action for the Center Left in the 2022 elections. With them there will also be More Europe. The goal is to increase the possibility of countering the advance of the center-right and then, on the programmatic front, a continuation of the path defined by the Draghi agenda. But if the agreement took days, the reactions took seconds.
After the Letta-Calenda tandem, what will become of Fratoianni e Bonelli? IS Renzi? Calenda does not close the door: "The doors are open to everyone in the coalition", but he added that "politics is not done just for the numbers". Two sentences that seem to suggest opposite directions to each other but which also clarify how entry into the coalition cannot be "whatever it takes".
Meanwhile, Fratoianni and Bonelli ask for a meeting with the Democratic Party for an electoral agreement and define "the agreement as legitimate but provided it is not binding".
Renzi: "We do not ally with those who voted against Draghi"
Among the first reactions toLetta-Calenda agreement that of the leader of Italia viva, Matteo Renzi, who announces with a Tweet that he will take the field alone. “We wanted Draghi in government, alone against everyone. Today we do not ally with who voted against Draghi. Politics comes before convenience. What others call loneliness, we call courage. Ready, here we go ”, writes the leader of Iv on Twitter.
But even before the pact, Renzi had said that “if Calenda and Letta agree, Forza Italia and Lega toast”, adding that “the speech of the useful vote, getting all together with the Democratic Party, is not credible. If there are no 5 Stars, the game is missing a piece even though I don't want them. I would understand the great alliance of all if everyone were there, but in this way, to cushion the victory of the right, a strong center is needed ". According to the leader of IV "those who start the electoral campaign today as Enrico Letta did are not opposing the right, but are giving them victory". “If I want to fight the right – explained the former Prime Minister – I cannot start by asking for the inheritance tax and embarking those who do not want Draghi. The appeal to unity can be made by those who take away the right's votes, not those who give them to them”.
Conte: "Telenovela finished with piled up from Gelmini to Pd"
Contemptuous the reaction of Giuseppe Conte which sees the 5-star Movement out of the center-left game: "Finally the Letta-Calenda soap opera is over: good luck to the new crowd that goes from Gelmini of school cuts to the Democratic Party, passing through Calenda, who has never put his nose outside a Ztl. They recognize themselves in the Draghi agenda. Legal minimum wage, fight against pollution and youth insecurity will be out of their agenda. No problem, we'll take care of it ”, writes the president of the pentastellati on Facebook.
Tajani: "Action fifth column of the Democratic Party"
"It is the fifth column of the Democratic Party and the left." Thus on Twitter the coordinator of Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, after the Letta-Calenda agreement. “Other than a project to create a new center, other than the Draghi government, simply at the service of those who want the property for a few more places,” she added.
Meloni: "The Moderate Party Action story ends"
Last but not least, the leader of the Brothers of Italy could not be missing, Giorgia Meloni: “The story of Action is over, a moderate party, an alternative to the left, all taxes, welfare and enemy of the productive class. The alliance - he continues - sheds light on the forces involved in the next elections. The usual left will compete with the center-right and FdI. The Democratic Party, the extreme left and Action, the offshoot of the Democratic Party chaired by the MEP elected in the Democratic Party, Carlo Calenda”.
