"I envy
Matteo Salvini a
lot
who has an idea about everything and who has his say on everything, exactly the typical Italian model, all coaches of the national team, but I think instead that the politics made like this after all has done a lot of damage. The pandemic has shown us how much it is important to trust science and those who have the skills and responsibility to make decisions ".
The secretary of the Democratic Party,
Enrico Letta
, said this in a meeting with the foreign press in Rome, answering a question about the Sputnik vaccine.
"All the more reason after yesterday's complex day", he adds (referring to the stop to the administration of AstraZeneca vaccines ed) "a responsible policy" is needed since "it is easy to incite fear".
As for the political positions of the former Lega Minister of the Interior, he added: "I saw Salvini make the turn" on the EU "and now be quietly on those positions ..... It is as if the Pope went to St. Peter's and would say 'dear faithful I must tell you something that is relevant but does not change anything, we have discovered that God does not exist, but continue to go to mass.' It seemed to me that Salvini's reasoning on the Draghi program was the same thing: Europe is not the cause of all evils as we have been saying for years, but let's pretend nothing has happened.
Responding to a question about why he should resist more than other secretaries of the Democratic Party "engulfed" by the war between currents, Letta replied: "Because this is the last chance".
On the entry of M5s into the PSE, the new secretary of the Democratic Party has made it known that he will talk about it "with the MEPs and the group leader Benifei, I don't want to say something without having talked to them but my tendency is to be in favor of an evolution in Europeanist terms of M5s, if evolution is the arrival at the Pse I am not yet able to say it because I have not yet done all the checks ".