"Enough controversy. In recent months there has been a management group close to me, starting with Orlando, Franceschini, D'elia, Cuperlo, Zanda, Cuppi, Bettini, De Micheli, Oddati and Chiara Braga and many other and many managing mayors and managers in the territories. I already said it yesterday ".
This was stated by the outgoing secretary of the Democratic Party and President of the Region, Nicola Zingaretti, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the medical train in Termini.
"I am confident that there will be the strength and authority to clarify where I have failed and to relaunch together a project for Italy" he added.
"The coordination of the mayors of the Democratic Party, unanimously, expresses great concern for the situation that has arisen with the resignation of Zingaretti. We now ask for responsibility and unity from the entire leadership group, as our people ask us everywhere. internal divisions have too often led to the resignation of the secretary of our party (in 14 years as many as 7 secretaries), and in recent days we have asked Zingaretti several times to reconsider ". This is the position of the first Dem citizens gathered yesterday by the coordinator of the PD mayors Matteo Ricci. "Now we need to hurry up and leave immediately confirming the holding of the assembly on Sunday", say the first citizens of the Democratic Party. "The mayors - they continue - are an extraordinary energy for the Democratic Party and have often ruled the party, and the entire Center-Left, in the territories. We have always suffered with suffering a party that is too based on internal currents and we want to be protagonists also in this passage so delicate, with responsibility and in the interest of our community. There is and has been, also underlined by Zingaretti, a cultural difficulty, even before a political one, in building and living in a truly democratic political culture ". "Too many - still point out the mayors of - still live within the factions and schemes of the past. In recent years the mayors have instead changed their skin, they have assumed the majority vocation to open up and win because by closing they would lose. The Democratic Party needs a guide authoritative that allows us to vigorously prepare the next administrative elections and that immediately puts Italy back at the center, immediately addressing the central and essential issues: the vaccination campaign and the fight against Covid, the economic and social crisis, the national plan of recovery and resilience with the Recovery Plan. It is also necessary to soon redefine our political profile, our identity, our mission in the Draghi government, as well as the system of alliances in view of the administrative offices. It is also evident - conclude the mayors of the Democratic Party - that it is essential to hold a true congress of strategic relaunch as soon as there are political and health security conditions ".