Much ado about nothing. Eventually, too Italian left e Verdi they decided to side with the Pd for a united front against the center-right and hope to win the elections of 25 September. But in recent days the left has become the protagonist of a small theater of vetoes and ultimatums, giving the image of a front already torn apart even before the elections. Voters could "punish" the center-left mob, made up of completely different parties. And then there is the unknown calenda, which had vetoed the Italian Left and Verdi, but which according to the dem secretary "are separate but compatible agreements".
All together against the center-right: the Pd-Si and Verdi agreement
After about an hour of confrontation, there is the electoral agreement between Pd-Verdi and the Italian Left. On single-member seats “the agreement reached is 80% (Pd) and 20% (Verdi-Si)”. The secretary of the Pd said, Enrico Read, in a press conference with the secretary of Si, Nicola Fratoianni and the co-spokesman of the VerdiAngelo Bonelli.
The umpteenth confirmation of the left's project: to stem the center-right at all costs, to the point of going hand in hand with those who think differently about everything.
The mandate to the secretary Fratoianni was: "Agreement with Pd, but also within the 5 Stars"
The National Assembly of the Italian Left had given a mandate to the national secretary and the secretariat to "verify the possibility of forging an agreement with the Democratic Party on single-member constituencies, such as to counter the electoral strength of the right-wing coalition as effectively as possible". reads in a note. But not only that, also “to work for such an agreement to be also extended to the M5S, and leads to the candidacy of important personalities from the world of work, culture, associations and democratic, progressive and ecological movements".
An ambition immediately curbed by the dem. While welcoming the decision of the Italian Left with satisfaction and appreciation, the dem confirm "the unavailability to reopen the discussion on the perimeter of the alliances already decided". No, therefore, the grillini remain out.
The third pole: Pizzarotti allied with Matteo Renzi?
The former mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti could team up with Italia Viva to overcome the fateful threshold of 5%. Matteo Renzi, in fact, he would have embarked on a dialogue with Pizzarotti who is back on track with the "National Civic List", a movement that engages mayors, local administrators, associations and promoters of local projects. The axis between the two could mess up the plans of the centre-left.
The former mayor of Grillino had announced that he had rejected the proposal of the Democratic Party "to merge into a single list with the one promoted by Luigi Di Maio and Bruno Tabacci". An "inadmissible" condition for Pizzarotti's movement.
Meanwhile, Renzi writes about Twitter: “While the others argue, we are the only serious and courageous ones who say third pole. We have not chosen solitude – here Renzi refers to Letta – we have chosen freedom. Alliances are made on ideas, not on benches. After you". And speaking of the Pd's alliance with Verdi and the Italian Left: "The Pd is also allied with those who were against Draghi: we are the only ones who are consistent"
Di Maio in the quagmire of the center-left but in the end a new agreement with the Democratic Party
Luigi Di Maio also throws himself into the fray. The Foreign Minister got bogged down in theLetta-Calenda agreement: no uninominal, but only the right of tribune in the Pd lists. A place for him and one for Bruno Tabacci. There would have been an agreement between Letta and Di Maio to reveal the option of the right to the gallery only two days before the deadline for the presentation of the lists closed.
Hence the fury of the minister with the secretary of the Democratic Party: “So you unleash me against the parliamentarians. I can't stand 20 days, I pass like the traitor. I can not accept".
In the evening, however, a new agreement was reached between Di Maio and the Democratic Party.
