Elly Schlein’s speech to the national leadership of the Democratic Party: live coverage

From sending weapons to Ukraine to abuse of office, up to surrogate motherhood and the relationship with the M5s: there are many topics on the agenda that the Pd secretary Elly Schlein will have to face today in direction, in search of a synthesis capable of holding together the different points of view

An appointment, postponed twice due to the deaths of Silvio Berlusconi and Flavia Franzoni, to which the Democratic Party arrives after hours of controversy: in particular those relating to the presence of Schlein at the Grillina demonstration last Saturday in Rome, which stood out for the anti-Atlantist words pronounced from the stage – Moni Ovadia’s speech caused discussion – and for those of Beppe Grillo on the “citizenship brigades” and balaclavas (later re-dimensioned by the comedian himself: “una boutade”). So much so that the same dem candidate for the Lazio region, the former health councilor Alessio D’Amato has resigned from the national assembly. Many in the Democratic Party have criticized Schlein’s participation in the pentastellata square and are now asking the leader for a clarification.