The opponent is on the right, but also on the side.
Day of clashes between the coupled Action-IV and the Democratic Party with + Europe, on the Palermo-Milan route.
Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi have ruled out the desire to make political alliances with the Nazarene after the vote
.
Actually, even Enrico Letta has never talked about it, but he took advantage of it, from Palermo, to attack the centrists:
"It seems to me that it is now clear: the Third pole looks to the right".
The reply from the Pd secretary was inspired by the words of the Action leader who, in tracing the scenario he is working on, explained: "I will not make an alliance with the Pd: otherwise I would have made it sooner. A broad coalition government , I want to do this. We need a common Alliance government, I also hope with Meloni ".
To put a stop to the comments coming in bursts from the leaders of the Democratic Party, the leader of Action clarified the meaning of his words on Meloni during the day: the goal is "a government of national unity possibly led by Mario Draghi", but " there is no room for a political government with sovereigns and populists ".
That word "political" makes the difference: for Calenda, if there ever will be, the alliance will not be through elective affinities,
For Letta, however, that sentence about Meloni hides Calenda's true intent:
"Whoever wants to beat the right - said the Pd secretary - has only one useful vote, that for the center-left. All the others are votes that in one way or another in the other they help the right ".
Calenda tried to close it with a joke:
"Enrico Letta, you are a kind of broken record"
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But the sparks didn't end there.
Also because Letta's jabs had already started before, by target intermediary.
In Sicily, the Pd secretary took it out on the M5s
, who turned around the candidacy of Caterina Chinnici for the presidency of the Region: "For me, the word given, the handshake and the commitment taken in front of the voters are the most important things".
The same words used against Calenda, when on live TV he tore up the agreement signed with the Democratic Party a few days earlier.
Having long since filed the tear from the dem, for the leader of the Action the agenda remains the same, given that "Renzi and I - he claimed - are the only ones to support it".
Also for the former travel companion, the secretary of + Europe Benedetto Della Vedova, who arrived in Milan, "if the coalition wins, the Prime Minister's policies will not be changed and Draghi will not change either", or at least "his way of to govern".
However, he specified, "I don't understand a government with Meloni and it makes no sense. I want to beat it at the polls".
And anyway, and here came the jab, "whoever has had an obsession with Fratoianni should have increased it tenfold for Meloni and Salvini".
As if to say: with Letta no but with Meloni yes?
Della Vedova attacked the Third Pole convinced that "
Emma Bonino
pointed the finger at politics "mired in diatribes all within the ring road", the exponent Pd Francesco Boccia said he agreed with Della Vedova: "It was evident that Calenda and Renzi had nothing to do with the history of the center left. They have no chance to influence the political situation: voting for them is like voting for Meloni ".
However, "we will not be again with the Democratic Party that has lost its soul - replied Renzi - after having changed their minds on citizenship income and jobs act, they can change their name to M5s".