"It is the M5s, which now decides the politics of the left, that has excluded Action and we have taken note of it. No problem. Until yesterday morning I spoke with Elly Schlein to understand what their candidacy orientation was and she told me that they didn't have it After that I learned from the agencies that there had been a coalition table that was very left-wing. Best wishes, what should I do?".
Thus Carlo Calenda, leader of Action, on RadioinBlu2000, on the choice of the centre-left candidate in Basilicata Domenico, supported by Pd, M5S, Avs, +Europa with the consent also of Angelo Chiorazzo, initially indicated as candidate by Basilicata Casa Comune.
A choice, Calenda underlines, that the secretary of the "did not bother" to communicate to him.
"We took 10% from the politicians there, there is Marcello Pittella who is the former governor and responsible for Action, they have made a choice, let's see now if it will repay them", says Calenda who will be in Basilicata tomorrow and Saturday to reunite his and discuss "why it is right that things are done this way".
"I prefer not to have lost candidates, on the other side there is a moderate pro-European, a man of the institutions, not the 'trux'. We will evaluate and decide.
It is not a choice, it is an observation: the center-left has excluded us, we are very rooted and very strong, we check the quality of the candidate from time to time."
"Now there is a centre-left leadership which is the leadership of Giuseppe Conte. In Sardinia they won by 1660 votes and due to the split vote, because the League did not vote for the right-wing candidate. But those are their choices, I can't get into it. ", he concludes
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