Listen to Giuseppe Conte yesterday morning. How can one talk about a center-left coalition, an alliance, or even simply a credible electoral pact? «It is clear that we will have to clarify some fixed points in advance, because it cannot be that tomorrow morning Schlein or another candidate wins and at that point weapons are sent in abundance to Kiev for a military escalation that is leading us day by day to the third world war.» Not enough? Conte further destroyed—or made even more ridiculous, you decide—the so-called broad field: «Reading the newspapers, it seems that the Five Star Movement and I demanded primaries from the start. I want to clarify.
The PD has clarified that for them the rule of the strongest party, the largest party that gets the most votes, applies as a preferential rule. You know us», he said addressing the audience at the Fatto Quotidiano festival, «we are in politics to fight battles and not to bring water in advance to someone’s mill. So we said: this is not possible because it does not fit our characteristics and gives us no guarantee. It is not a personal issue against Elly Schlein, who legitimately aspires to be a candidate, but we cannot put ourselves in the hands of another political force in advance, whether it is the PD or any other force. The rule of the strongest party is a hegemonic rule and is not a political category as far as we are concerned to fight our battles.»
Conte spoke from Marina di Pietrasanta. Throughout the day, counterattacks came from the PD.
This is Lia Quartapelle, Democratic vice president in the Chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee: «The insistence with which he reiterates his rambling positions on Ukraine, when he knows very well that PD, Italia Viva, and +Europa vote to continue supporting the invaded country, makes one think he does not want coalition unity. He is not an ally but a saboteur.»
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This is Senator Filippo Sensi: «He’s agitated, poor guy. He will have to come to terms with it. Support for Ukraine, for the resistance for the values of freedom and democracy that Kiev defends every day, will continue. This is what the left does, this is what the democrats do. With all due respect to Italy’s Vannacci.» Against Conte also Piero Fassino, who is vice president of the Defense Committee in the Chamber: «To Conte, who states that Ukraine should no longer be supported in its defense against Russian aggression, it is legitimate to pose a crucial question: should we yield to Putin’s demand to obtain the cession of Donbass to the Russian Federation? This question cannot be avoided since Putin has reiterated that he will never sign any agreement that does not provide for the cession of Donbass to the Russian Federation. Also because if he did not obtain it, he would not know how to explain to his citizens why he unleashed a war that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers. Therefore, a clear answer is needed: does peace mean accepting the aggressor’s diktat by imposing on the attacked Ukraine a mutilation of its own country and a humiliating surrender?»
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And again, Lorenzo Guerini, president of Copasir, the bicameral parliamentary body that oversees the intelligence services: «Support for Ukraine will continue, indeed it will improve since in recent months Italy has slowed down aid, until a ceasefire is reached and the start of a fair negotiation. They will have to come to terms with it.» Against Conte also the Renzi supporters Enrico Borghi and Davide Faraone.
And Schlein? At the Emilia-Romagna unity festival, not knowing what to say, she said the usual obvious things: «There is an article of the Constitution that is the premise of all the others and it is article 11: “Italy repudiates war” and we repudiate war and want to contribute to restoring peace for the Palestinians, for the Ukrainians, and for the Iranians.» The leader did not respond directly to Conte, otherwise, fearing that the broad field would die before the elections, she would have had to try to get by with other obvious statements. Like these, which however are against “the right”: «Meloni is the last premier who parcels out Rai, with the other oppositions we will reform to free the public service from the parties.» «Let’s put it this way, if they win again they will bring military spending to 5% of GDP, if we win we will bring health spending to 7%.» «On immigration, all the propaganda and failure of the Meloni government has been consumed. Think about the propaganda on Ceuta.» It must be said that at the unity festival people laugh heartily.
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