Goodbye third pole, Renzi: “It’s Calenda’s fault. The Reformist? It is normal for a leader to be the director”

«It was Calenda’s decision, which I respect but do not share. It was a unilateral decision, that’s how it went but we can’t reproach ourselves for anything. We have done everything and we have a clear conscience», said Matteo Renzi referring to the failure of the single party project of the Third Pole.

«Now there are two pieces of evidence: the first is that Calenda does not want to be a single party. The second is that, however, that political space exists even if Renzi and Calenda are gone tomorrow. It is a space of politics – he continued – against sovereignty and populism. We need to work on that space in the dimension of politics and not of personal rancor. We need to go back to making people dream, we need to feed hope and passion. We have to go and get the many administrators, the mayors. How to do it since yesterday is more complicated, if we had all done it together it would have been easier. But we must avoid continuing to do damage ».

And again: «Now what happens? That we must not feed the controversy. Stop, closed, it’s gone. We all know what the truth is. It is enough to look at the documents to understand who was responsible» for the breakup of the Third Pole, «it is enough to see how things went, it is enough to tell the facts. We did everything we could, we couldn’t do more than that. We have a clear conscience.” «We have given the willingness to do everything to get this project started», she adds.

And on the Reformist, Renzi sinks: «It is normal for a leader to be the director. It is an Italian tradition to have political leaders who feed the debate in the newspapers, since the time of Ricasoli. Spadolini was also director».

And finally Renzi closes: «I will go back to talking to the friends of Italia Viva to regroup, but we are open to any type of collaboration. Meanwhile with Action. On the territories, please, no reaction fouls. I heard some friends who wanted to break the covenants for administrative. But are we crazy? We try to work together wherever possible. Where we agree we continue to work together. In parliamentary groups we stand for moving forward together. We try to do everything except reaction fouls».