Calenda’s open letter to the Democratic Party: “The M5s will never be progressive”
“There are no ‘wide fields’ to build. Don’t waste time evoking them. There is only one choice to make: progressives or populists”, so Carlo Calenda, leader of Action, urges the “dear friends of the Democratic Party” in an open letter in Repubblica .
“The choice you have to make is not between Conte and Calenda but between populism and reformism. The M5s is not a progressive party, it never was and never will be. It was born as a replica of the ordinary man and takes votes by proposing the same solutions “. Instead,” the proposal of the Third Pole is entirely focused on the reconstruction of a functioning welfare state. We have not proposed astonishing tax cuts, increases in subsidies, pensions for everyone like the 5s and the populist right. We have put investments in education and health at the center of the program, as chapters on which to build a generational pact “.
“Decide once and for all who you are and which side you stand on. Opposition is a great opportunity to recover consensus through the force of ideas when they are clear and understandable. It is an opportunity not to be wasted to seek tactical and variable alliances. Not there are ‘wide fields’ to be built. Don’t waste time evoking them. There is only one choice to make: progressives or populists. “
Pd, Mirabelli replies to Calenda: “Neither welds nor migrations”
“I observe that Carlo Calenda continues to devote so much attention to our party. I wonder if it is the same attention he is dedicating to us. his partner Renzi who openly says he wants to destroy the party of which he was secretary. However, I would like to reassure him: there will be no welds with the M5S and there will be no migrations to anyone “, repilica the senator of the Democratic Party Franco Mirabelli.
“We are the second Italian party, we will discuss and prepare the path of our congress. In the meantime we will work in Parliament to build an effective opposition to the government, aware of being the main alternative force to the right. In the meantime, we wonder if Calenda will also want to contribute to this. work”.
Pd, Fiano: “Calenda’s letter is off the scale and out of tune”
“I have carefully read the public letter that Carlo Calenda sent to my party and I consider it out of scale and out of tune”. He emphasizes it Emanuele Fiano of the Democratic Party. “Out of scale because the habit of telling others what they must or must not be is ancient and pernicious and recalls precisely those ‘maximalist’ cultures that placed themselves on the altar of revealed truth and, therefore, in the duty of giving life lessons and behavior to those who were other than themselves. In reversed parts I would never allow myself to do the same but, starting from myself, I would welcome the other secularly, in his diversity and specificity and if possible I would find traits of commonality, never imposed but always concerted and shared, “he adds.
“And out of tune due to the obvious contradiction that Calenda’s actual ultimatum – already inadmissible in its formal dimension – contains, that is, to tell us that the question is not choosing between him and Conte and then reiterating that the only thing that the Democratic Party, according to him, must do is choose between him and Conte “.
“It’s a role-playing game that is honestly zero-sum”. “I am convinced that what we have lived from 1996 to today, from the Olive tree, to the Union, to today’s Democratic Party, has exhausted a function and lost a perspective and that today a refounding act is neededfirst of all starting from the close confrontation with the social and labor representatives and not on simple leadership, nor on forced and forced alliances, as instead Calenda seems to suggest to us “. However,” thanking Calenda for his attention to us, I wish him a profitable constituent path together with the friends of Italia vivawhich will be challenging and will require all available energies, starting with yours “, he concludes.
Pd, Valente: “Calenda take care of Renzi, we are alive and well”
“First he ‘calls’ us to choose between populism and reformism, now he is worried about our joining with the M5s. Instead of being continually interested in the Democratic Party, Calenda is calm, if anything, he takes care of Renzi and both are concerned about Action, given that the The choices they made did not bring the desired results. In fact, let us calm both: we are alive and well, there will be no welds or migrations. The Democratic Party will build in Parliament a tough and effective opposition to the most extreme right that has governed in Italy “, he says the senator of the Democratic Party, Valeria Valente.
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