Enrico Letta will arrive in Rome in the afternoon from Paris.
The former premier will also have contacts with the loyalists in the last hours of reflection before dissolving the reservation on the candidacy for the secretariat of the Democratic Party.
On Friday at noon, therefore, the Democratic Party could have its new secretary, whom the National Assembly on Sunday would sanction with an almost unanimous vote.
Letta has in fact announced that within 48 hours he will dissolve the reserve on requests to run for leadership of the Democratic Party.
The knot that prompted the former premier to wait is the breadth of the base that will support him at the Assembly, given that at this appointment he intends to present himself not as a simple ferryman towards a "congress that counts" to be held within a few months, but as a secretary in all respects, with no time limits to his mandate except those of the statute, who undertakes to open a constituent phase for the Party for its renewal.
"I am grateful for the amount of encouragement messages I am receiving - wrote Letta on Twitter - I have the Pd in my heart and these solicitations touch the deepest chords. But this unexpected acceleration really takes me by surprise; I will need 48 hours to reflect good. And then decide. "
In fact, just on Sunday, again on social media, Letta himself had ruled out his return to the field.
But Dario Franceschini and Nicola Zingaretti seem the most determined to support his arrival.
The argument used is that his name would have been the most unitary one, the one with the most chance of getting the Democratic Party out of the "swamp" it ended up in.
If the former opted for confidentiality, the latter made his orientation understood through the statements of some executives close to him who encouraged Letta to dissolve the reserve and all currents to give him support.
Of course, Goffredo Bettini, stating that he "has no foreclosures" towards Letta, has hinted that he is not among the architects of the operation, so much so that he has insisted that the party will still need a political "clarification" among its various souls.
"Clarification" which translates with the word congress, which was what the Riformista Base was asking for, which with Letta as a candidate was displaced.
It is in fact clear that Beniamino Andreatta's favorite pupil would only accept to be full secretary, with the deadline of 2023 provided for by the Statute, so as to guide the Dems not only in the October administrative offices, but also in the January 2022 negotiations. for the election of the President of the Republic.
Instead, from Base Riformista the yes to Letta arrived, but with the clarification of Andrea Marcucci and Alessia Morani that a congress would still be needed in the autumn.