Pd, Madia: 'Masked co-optation to the Chamber'

In the Chamber "what could have been a healthy confrontation between people who are esteemed was immediately transformed into something else. Immediately we plunged back into the traditional game of more or less explicit transversal agreements with the outgoing group leader, as referee of a competition proposed by him, who actively promoted one of the two candidates, transforming in my eyes the free and transparent confrontation he had called into a disguised co-option ".

The deputy

wrote it

in a letter to the Pd parliamentarians.

Madia is a candidate with Debora Serracchiani to become the new leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber.

"It would be absolutely legitimate to do it out in the open. Debora is an authoritative person. But, I repeat, it is a question of co-optation in disguise. This distance between form and substance is not healthy: do not follow what we say our behavior I think is one of the causes of why we are no longer able to express the expansive vocation of our party. I cannot deny the human regret for what has happened ".

"It is not just a problem of this passage, but more generally of how to do politics: thanks to the secretary Enrico Letta we are discussing it right now in the circles, where the militants are confronting each other with great vitality, hoping that their contribution will not is thwarted by a lack of radicalism in the behavior of the ruling class ".

"I would like to tell you - continues Madia - how my candidacy was born. With Graziano Delrio, whom I have always considered a person of value, we are linked to years of joint work first with the Government and then in this very complicated legislature. It was him, after having accepted the invitation of the new secretary to take a step back, to ask me to get involved with my candidacy together with that of my esteemed friend Debora Serracchiani. He chose a different path from the one taken in the Senate where the outgoing group leader Marcucci invited senators and senators to jointly sign the candidacy of Simona Malpezzi ". 

I did not invite anyone to stand as a candidate and no one not to do so because it would have been disrespectful of freedom ". The leader of the Pd group,

,

writes this

in a letter to the deputies." .

And perhaps I do not deserve accusations of non-transparent maneuvers or of power given that I wanted to give up that power by immediately leaving my post.

Certain words hurt me extremely because they do not correspond to reality and because they come from a person I have always respected.

I believe and hope that it is a question of bitterness ".

"I cannot believe that Marianna - writes

- intends to refer to me as a co-optable person and therefore, I should suppose, not autonomous. No, autonomy has been the key to my personal and political history, and also when I have been close to someone did it loyally, sharing ideas and maintaining freedom of judgment. Who knows, recognizes me ".

"Marianna, let's confront each other without afterthoughts".

Debora Serracchiani writes it in a letter who, "albeit reluctantly", cannot "avoid" expressing herself on the letter sent by Madia, "at least for the part that touches me and involves me personally".

"Leaving aside" the shareable considerations on the difficult work that awaits us ", writes Serracchiani," I cannot believe that Marianna intends to refer to me as a co-optable person and therefore, I should suppose, not autonomous.

No, autonomy has been the key to my personal and political history. "It is a work of" soul and screwdriver "to" change and make the Democratic Party more and more competitive "according to the indications given by the secretary Letta, in which "I fully recognize myself and feel this operational attitude and the desire to experience myself personally.

I always have.

Even at the risk of finding myself in awkward positions or being criticized: I also know this ". Debora Serracchiani writes this in the letter sent to all the deputies of the party, after the letter from Marianna Madia. Serracchiani writes that she feels obliged to respond for the" consideration that it is due to a colleague of recognized value who has held government positions "and to live the situation" with absolute serenity and in total transparency, honored indeed to compete with a colleague like Marianna ". Then, she insists a lot on autonomy, which she defines" figure "of her" personal and political history ". Even" when I was next to someone I did it loyally, sharing ideas and maintaining freedom of judgment ", she highlights; it is a" small heritage that I care a lot about, because authenticity and honesty are my values ​​that I bring as a dowry to my party and offer to my fellow Members.

So I hope that, if ever shadows or misunderstandings may have touched Marianna, they are immediately dispelled ". Finally, the invitation:" Let's face each other without mortgages and without retro thoughts ", sure that" every colleague of the group will decide in full freedom ", since" no one it would be imposed from top candidates.

And really, in the end, we will all be richer. "