The single party will be done.
Italia Viva and Action agree on this.
On everything else, in the Third Pole, the opinions seem to be conflicting, the perspectives divergent.
"Renzi and I have never been friends, we take a political path because we share some things," Calenda said on live TV.
But, beyond mutual sympathy, the shared things seem to decrease, especially after the performance of the regional elections.
For the leader of Azione, the battle is over how long it takes to build the party.
"I want to make the party immediately and Renzi wants to do it later, after the Europeans, but for me we won't get there, it has to be done sooner".
Italia Viva does not hesitate and replies with the national spokesmen Ciro Buonajuto and Alessia Cappello.
"Renzi said, both privately in Calenda and publicly, that we are ready to form a single party even immediately.
The problem is not if or when. But how
".
Looking at the dispute from Renzi's point of view, therefore, there would be no tension on the timing but on the method.
The reference is to the debate necessary to avoid cold fusion.
And Calenda's step forward, from this side of the Third Pole, seemed a bit too long.
The leader of Azione, in the television interview, warned: "there is no time, the voters must be clear that there is a liberal-democratic reformist centre".
And "immediately", for Calenda, means "from March".
Of the same idea are Mara Carfagna, president of Azione, and Enrico Costa, deputy secretary.
The invitation is "not to stall", to "avoid slow motion" The response of Italia Viva, however, is not limited to the method note.
"If this debate on the single party serves to cancel the controversies on the regional ones, that's fine", write the spokesmen.
Senator Ivan Scalfarotto is more explicit: "we are more convinced than anyone about the single party, I have the impression that this discussion serves more to hide post-regional tensions than anything else".
An implicit nod to the frictions of the last few days, both on the imbalance between the councilors elected in the regional ones, where Italia Viva prevailed, and on the leadership of Carlo Calenda.
Who replies: “
Renzi took a step back and gave me the leadership, I take responsibility for politics
”, The ex-minister then tries to calm things down.
"The path towards the single party - writes the leader of Action - was promised to the voters and discussed many times in the Political Committee: writing of the manifesto, openness to subscription by citizens and associations, constituent with vote of the members for election of governing bodies and leadership ".
For Calenda, therefore, the method is there, and how.
And
there is also a date to set the "times"
, which cause so much discussion: February 27, when Italia Viva and Azione will meet in the committee.
And at the end of a long day, sources from Italia Viva try to ease the tension by telling of a "very calm" Renzi.
Here the single party continues to be seen as a shared "destination", or rather, a "destiny".
With this conviction, the former premier will meet next week parliamentarians, regional councilors and national spokesmen.