“I await a new proposal by Monday, unity depends on both”- Corriere.it

The tension does not drop Democratic party for the selection of new group leaders.

In recent days, the new secretary Elly Schlein had indicated two of her loyalists as her candidates: Francesco Boccia for the Senate and Clare Braga — Franceschini trend — for the Chamber. «It has never happened before, the groups are autonomous, even Renzi kept Speranza, and Letta, who instead changed, did not impose any names: in Montecitorio there was the count between Serracchiani and Madia. And then Braga is in its fourth legislature and has always been in the secretariat with any leader. What renewal is it? », had been the most frequent comments in the group that she had supported Stefano Bonaccini to Congress.

So today the president of the Democratic Party brought together “his” parliamentarians and asked the secretary for “a new discussion” and “a new overall proposal” by “Monday”: and he underlined that the unity of the party “depends on us, but obviously at least as much» by Schlein.

However, the meeting was not attended by a large group of parliamentarians who had supported Bonaccini – the component of the “neo-ulivists”: from Marco Meloni to Anna Ascani, from Enrico Borghi to Matteo Mauri, from Ilenia Malavasi to Lorenzo Basso: behind this decision the I hope that “the passage of the elections for the dem group leaders will be lived without divisions”.

Bonaccini’s speech

“Many of you have asked me these days to see us: I stalled a bit to understand if we were being offered a slightly clearer picture – which however does not exist yet,” said Bonaccini. «But before leaving for a few days on a mission to Texas that I had planned for months, I thought it was right to take up this appeal and tell you that, if you deem it useful, I would proceed as the secretary proposed to me again this morning: continue the discussion for understand how he intends to compose the overall picture in the next few hours, hopefully between now and Monday. The line and the new structures in the groups and in the secretariat», explained the governor.

“So now I would not open a debate on a framework that lacks too many elements and I would use the time that separates us from Monday to go and close them, to see what is the overall proposal that Elly makes”, he underlined again.

«After the positive passage of the national assembly on the 12th», he continued, «it would be absolutely desirable that the next passages also take place in a climate of unity and collaboration. This is what our people expect and it is an element that is good for the image of the Democratic Party, finally on the pitch. The fact that we are discussed again for what we think, propose and do rather than for our internal vicissitudes is crucial. This is why I asked the Secretariat to preserve the spirit and methods inaugurated at the national assembly: there I said that I don’t feel like a minority and that I want to help strengthen the Democratic Party at all levels, even by sharing responsibilities. It depends on us but obviously it depends at least as much on the Secretary».

«Elly», the governor of Emilia-Romagna said again, «last week she gave me her opinion on group leaders and I felt compelled to immediately advise her to be cautious. Not because I believe it is up to me to give report cards on the names, but because I think that a positive relationship should be built with the parliamentary groups: on the one hand respectful of the line issued at the congress but at the same time respectful of the autonomy of the groups and of the orientations that I am. Building this harmony does not seem so difficult to me if the right steps are taken and closed and indisputable proposals are not dropped from above».

«In recent days – continued Bonaccini – I have heard from many of you and I have registered the discontent that has also emerged in these hours. I decided to represent this problematic picture to Elly so that he would take it into account. And I decided to wait to get together because I don’t believe, due to the things I said in the introduction, that our task is to organize the discontent and dissent, but to represent to Elly the framework of the evaluations that emerge, for the sole purpose of not making mistakes. And if we can also identify possible solutions ».

«In this sense, for example, I find it acceptable that he understood that gathering the groups together last week to vote would have been a mistake, while it is certainly useful to have a ride on Monday where we can first discuss and discuss and then proceed with the choices. We have spoken again in these hours too and I have reiterated what I think is what I have recorded: there are the conditions to do well and together if you have the patience to listen to each other and the will to share. You reiterated your desire to achieve unified management and I am pleased about this. I said I would also be available in the next few hours to talk to take steps forward, if you agree too, in order to arrive on Monday with a more complete picture».

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