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Democratic Party and the splits: Calenda-Orlando controversy

7/6/2020, 3:10:59 AM


Vice President Dem replies to former government colleague (ANSA)"I didn't split. I left on my own because I thought the alliance with the 5S was deadly for the reformists. It was the unanimous position of the Democratic Party. Voted in the organs and confirmed in the first report of Zingaretti. You split yourself from your promises and your values. " Action leader Carlo Calenda wrote on Twitter in response to a tweet from yesterday by Andrea Orlando that today...

"I didn't split. I left on my own because I thought the alliance with the 5S was deadly for the reformists. It was the unanimous position of the Democratic Party. Voted in the organs and confirmed in the first report of Zingaretti. You split yourself from your promises and your values. " Action leader Carlo Calenda wrote on Twitter in response to a tweet from yesterday by Andrea Orlando that today the Democratic Party would be equal to the League if there had been no divisions.

"Being able to make controversy about a fairly obvious assertion, that is, it would be better to avoid splitting, an endemic disease of the left, is a great undertaking. But there are those who succeed". So Orlando, on twitter, who replies, but without mentioning it, to Carlo Calenda.