While the M5S continues to express reservations about Matteo Renzi joining the coalition, postponing the decision until after the program is drafted, the people at the Unità festivals break the hesitation and celebrate in grand style the return of the former scrapper to the center-left. The leader of Italia Viva, in fact, will be a guest at three festivals. But not just any three. All three in the red Emilia, in the heart of the activism that comes from the PCI, the PDS, the DS.
The last will be the festival in Bologna, another historic appointment for the people who survived the Bolognina. An agenda that is already a political fact. As is, symmetrically, the choice not to invite Carlo Calenda, leader of Azione, to the Festa dell’Unità in Bologna. “We invited Renzi, as we did last year,” explained Enrico Di Stasi, secretary of the Bologna PD.
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“We did not invite Calenda, also because we were quite shocked by his statements these days.” Di Stasi added that “until a few weeks ago we were working together to build an expansion of the alliance,” but now “we will understand in the future what kind of relationship we will have.” Calenda’s sarcastic response on social media: “What immense pain! I don’t know if I will ever recover.”
The return among the kitchens and stages of the Dem activists begins on August 3, when Renzi will be in Borgo Albergati, in the province of Modena, for a discussion with the president of the Dem National Assembly, Stefano Bonaccini. Then on the 7th in Villalunga di Casalgrande, where he will talk with Michele De Pascale, governor of Emilia Romagna, perhaps one of the personalities in the PD closest to Renzi. Between late August and September he will then be in Bologna. An invitation to the national festival in Reggio Emilia is not excluded.
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In the past, the relationship between the Iv leader and the Unità festivals had moments of enthusiasm (as secretary), but also of great tension and even protest. In fact, he had not been invited to the Emilia festivals for some time. In 2025 he was in Milan, land of a reformist left. In 2024 in Pesaro. In 2023, however, one of the most painful breaks occurred: he was not invited to the Florence festival, a city where he was mayor for two terms. Instead, the PD invited Calenda. But the lowest point in the relationship between the people of the Unità festivals and Renzi was recorded in 2019 when, at the Milan edition held at the end of August, the PD decided not to include him among the 470 guests. A few weeks later – and after the birth of Conte 2 – Renzi left the PD to found Italia Viva.
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It went even worse in 2018 when even his hometown, Rignano sull’Arno, decided to “cancel” him from the program, commenting polemically that if he wanted, he could come “to eat a pizza.” It seems like a century ago. Then, after the attempt and failure of the Third Pole, Renzi became the staunchest supporter of a center-left alliance. Broad, open. And above all led by Elly Schlein (of whom he is the most convinced supporter). Perhaps also for this reason the people of the Unità Festivals, who side with the secretary, are ready to welcome him back and already feel him “one of us.” It will be even more difficult for M5S to object to the perimeter of the alliance. Even if the attempt will still be made.
