“The Lingotto is the place of working-class tradition, but also the place of the Democratic Party. Here Walter Veltroni wanted the first act of the new Democratic Party, but we are not in a place of nostalgia: we are here to reclaim tomorrow. We have to restart after the abrupt stop of the referendum but also with respect to the post-referendum. It seems that someone dreams of turning back the hands of history. But we have the responsibility to treasure the errors, relaunch the ideals and contents and restore hope to the country”. With these words Matteo Renzi opened his speech at the Lingotto in Turin, kicking off the three-day programmatic convention to support his candidacy for the secretariat of the Democratic Party, in view of the April primaries.
"We have filled up, I'm happy to be here with you, we are happy to be together here in Turin to leave together for an extraordinary adventure," said the former prime minister. “This is a people who never speak ill of others ed the first message is for Orlando and Emiliano, I wish them good work and the assurance that we will never have an ad personam controversy like the ones we've been through for weeks. We have to restart after the abrupt stop of the referendum but also with respect to the post-referendum. It seems that someone dreams of turning back the hands of history. But we have the responsibility to capitalize on mistakes, relaunch the ideals and contents and restore hope to the country. Let's start again from the places that have marked our history and tradition. The future – underlines Renzi – is no longer fashionable but it is our challenge, fear is the electoral weapon of others. Here Veltroni – recalls the former prime minister – wanted the first act of the new Pd but we are not in a place of nostalgia, we don't think that the glue could be nostalgia. We are here to reclaim tomorrow by recognizing that the right to truth is won by fighting, there is a difference between being heirs and being veterans. We want to rebuild a concrete horizon of hope, otherwise the future belongs only to those who say no. If we don't do it, no one else will."
Matteo Renzi has claimed the government's action in recent years attempt to restore primacy to politics. “Politics – she explains – must be able to indicate a direction, not be divided between currents. The challenge is not the nauseating daily ping pong of these weeks and months that has tired even insiders and makes no sense. The 2008 crisis brought about a total change in the game scheme and this new inequality calls politics to a new sentiment we are the ones who reject anti-politics but we can't complain about the grill on duty because anti-politics is the populist but also the technocrat who does as he pleases. Either the Democratic Party gives a vision – he articulates – or it becomes a subject that no longer exists ”.
During his speech, Renzi also claims the approval of the inclusion income and that the Chamber has said yes to the first form of self-employment organization. “Yesterday – he says – the mayor of Amatrice called me announcing that the sports center will be built with 20 necessary students, of whom you are outside the region. I still have goosebumps. For all these things we are convinced by Gentiloni's side”.
“We are here – said the former prime minister – to discuss, dialogue, divide if necessary. Debate by restoring meaning to the word companion, which comes from 'cum' and 'panis', the one who shares the essential, the most important thing he has. If the world offers us Trump and Le Pen and we argue among ourselves, we are missing out on the high sense of politics. I believe that Italy must commit itself to the direct election of the president of the European Commission, more democracy and not bureaucracy is needed, there cannot be a political relationship unrelated to consensus. Let us in the PSE begin by saying that whoever will be the candidate will be chosen with transnational primaries, giving power to the citizens and not leaving it only to insiders. We are not here to restart, because we have never stopped, not to motivate ourselves because you are more motivated than me, we are not here to look for a newspaper headline but to discuss, dialogue, divide if necessary".
“Whoever fires at this community – Renzi points out – does not only harm the militants but weakens the foundations of the country's democratic system. The Pd in Italy is the only alternative to the double model party company or party algorithm, we will be happy when the Democratic Party is not the only party practicing an internal democracy when the data of the Democratic Party will not be an exception. It must be clear that being the party secretary and the candidate to lead the government is not just a statute or a personal ambition, but a fundamental European custom. If I hadn't been head of the party I wouldn't have gotten any of the results, I got it by having 41%, the consent of the people. My business card with Merkel was 11.2 million votes taken by the Democratic Party because consensus is the basis of every claim. We have not untied the knot of the party model. The need for a different method and greater collegiality is a priority, I'm the first to admit it. And it is no coincidence that I presented the ticket with Martina".
During his speech, Finally, Renzi announced the Bob web platform: "From Sunday our renewed internet platform will start, it will not be called Rousseau with all due respect, but a name more in contact with the history of the party will be called Bob, like bob kennedy, whoever wants will have his own password and pin. The circles must be more open but we must not leave the web to those who make business and money with the ideals of others. We need to do more on political education, avoid some improvisations in power. Tomorrow Massimo Recalcati will talk about an extraordinary experience of the Milanese Democratic Party which will start on May 20, with a school of political training that will last for four months that we offer to the party". Then there will be “a national school that lasts nine months for two hundred people, young people, who are involved in public school. And if they want to make fun of us with 'Frattocchie 2.0', let them do it. We need to study”.
