Matteo Renzi meets US President Barack Obama for the first time at the White House but don't forget Italy. In the face-to-face meeting with Obama, the Italian premier will today ask that the US use drones against terrorists to normalize the explosive situation in Libya, the epicenter of tensions and tragedies in the Middle East and a thorn in the side of Europe and the Italy. But of course the meeting with Obama will cover all current international issues: from relations with Europe to negotiations with Iran to the fall of the wall in Cuba and relations with Russia.
But, even in his short stay in America, Renzi does not forget Italy (which he defined yesterday in front of the students of the University of Georgetown as "the sleeping beauty" who needs to be woken up with reforms) and the aftermath of the rift in the Democratic Party on the Italicum.
Renzi won once again in the other evening's assembly of Pd deputies which led to the resignation of the Bersanian group leader Roberto Speranza and the reconfirmation of support for theitalicum as it stands in view of its definitive approval in the Chamber. But Renzi does not want to win big and does not want to break with the dem minority.
This is why, in a surprise move that clearly aims to cool tensions in the Democratic Party, Renzi opens up on the reform of the Senate and declares to "Republic" that "the Senate can be elected" and no longer made up of regional councilors. It is not a small opening and it is worth leaving the door open to the minority of the Democratic Party by designing new possible political scenarios, naturally after the definitive go-ahead for Italicum.
Now it will be up to Bersani and all the minorities of the Democratic Party to take up the challenge: take it or leave it. But a new no from the dem dissidence would be even more incomprehensible to most than the battle over the Italicum.
