Matteo Renzi is the new director of the Riformista: “I’m staying in parliament, so I’m not leaving, but doubling”

Matteo Renzi is the new director of the Riformista, as announced by the Twitter account of the newspaper, retweeted by the former Prime Minister himself.

«I accepted a fascinating challenge: for a year I will be the director of @ilriformista». See you live on Facebook at 12 to tell you about this project». Matteo Renzi writes it, again on Twitter.

And at 12, punctual, the press conference of the parliamentarian began on social media now as director of a newspaper that he takes from the hands of Piero Sansonetti, at his side during the live broadcast, who went to manage the Unit.

The presentation of the newspaper’s new governance, which took place at the headquarters of the foreign press association, opened with a curtain call: “There’s nothing to say, he killed me – began Sansonetti, receiving Renzi’s super-classic “Stay calm”. “Even if he stole my job, I wish him all the best, because it is not possible that the reformist led by Renzi will not be successful” added Sansonetti.

Then the word passed to the parliamentarian: «I’m not leaving but doubling – he told his new journalist colleagues – I’ll continue to be an opposition parliamentarian, to intervene in the Chamber, to do exactly what I was doing, but I’m putting on a load of nineties, trying to carry out an operation that serves the country”, explaining that he is passionate about the relationship between “truth and virality” and the newspaper he directs will be looking for that “desperate sense of truth” that is breathed in this moment. “There is no link with the Third Pole, the Reformist will be read by a part of the majority, the reformist centre-right, and the area of ​​the Democratic Party that does not recognize itself in Schlein”. And – he added – it will not be Meloni’s newspaper, nor that of Schlein and Conte. “Moreover, one thing is certain: we will avoid stadium tones”.

Renzi – who will be joined in the management by a journalist because he is not registered in the register – was first greeted by the wishes of his colleague from Italia Viva Calenda. When asked about his new salary, he surprised everyone: “I haven’t signed the contract yet.” Finally, a pinch of politics, commenting on the recent elections in Friuli Venezia Giulia with such unflattering results for the Democratic Party. “Now Elly Schlein is right too: they didn’t see us coming.”