Stefano Bonaccini looks to the aftermath: "If I become secretary, I make the commitment: in a few years we will return to government by beating the right at the polls and already in a year we will do everything to be the first party in the European elections".
Elly Schlein invites Pd voters to bet: "You can't go ahead with safe second-hand cars," he says in an interview with Manifesto.
A few hours from the day of truth, the two challengers to lead the Democratic Party fire the last ammunition.
A few more hours and then the dem voters will decide: 5,500 gazebos open from 8 to 20 on Sunday.
In many polling stations, alongside the flags of the Democratic Party, those of peace and Ukraine will fly.
One year after the start of the war, Enrico Letta wanted to do his last act as secretary by leading a party delegation on a visit to the Ukrainian embassy in Rome: "It's an important gesture - he said - I wanted to testify to the coherence of our line: the infamous aggression must stop".
Letta is sure, whoever wins on Sunday, the line of the Democratic Party will not change, even on sending weapons: "The Democratic Party has made a decision that is in its DNA, to defend those who are attacked".
Internal issues are more dividing the candidates to succeed him.
Bonaccini doesn't feel like a safe second-hand.
"I've never belonged to any current - he said - and I was the first to say that if the currents wanted to support me, I wouldn't have wanted that support and this meant that we really split up.
It is no coincidence that all or almost all the leaders who have led the party do not support Bonaccini". And then, in response to the rival's accusations: "Civil rights are fundamental for increasing the rights of minorities who do not have any.
I don't take lessons from anyone on those, in Emilia Romagna, in the last legislature, when Schlein was not yet in the Region, we approved the regional law against homotransphobia".
Meanwhile, Schlein has received another endorsement.
It is that of the president of the Democratic Party, the mayor of Marzabotto Valentina Cuppi.
"We have to take up the space that they have denied us for so long by suffocating our energies - she wrote on Facebook - And when I say ours, I mean a large and plural We, unlike the ego and the idea of a lonely and strong man at the command".
Schlein confirmed: "I was sorry to hear once again how comfortable the patriarchal party is in telling women where they should be and casually always seeing them well but in the role of deputy. I ran as a candidate to break these dynamics, to demonstrate that even for the Pd it is time for a female and feminist guide especially now that there is government
she is a female leader who has decided every day not to contribute to improving the living conditions of other women". The Pd congress was also dotted with incidents, large and small. Schlein's backpack was stolen on the train: inside there were "the notebooks where I have collected testimonies and cross-references on this long journey - he wrote on Facebook - the letters that some of you have given me with your hopes and proposals, from the South to the North.
I'm so sorry to lose them."
the notebooks where I collected testimonies and cross-references on this long journey - he wrote on Facebook - the letters that some of you gave me with your hopes and proposals, from the South to the North.
I'm so sorry to lose them."
the notebooks where I collected testimonies and cross-references on this long journey - he wrote on Facebook - the letters that some of you gave me with your hopes and proposals, from the South to the North.
I'm so sorry to lose them."