Naike Piattini and farewell to Calenda: “I tried to explain it to him, but you can’t talk to him: you just have to listen”

Honorable Naike Piattini, but he could have made at least one phone call to Carlo Calenda to say that he was leaving Action to go to Matteo Renzi.

“I smile at the question. Carlo was warned and our communication is proportionate to the relationship we have. He wasn’t surprised as he says, because this decision is the result of a long reflection. Talking to Calenda is difficult. Usually he talks and you you have to listen. I have tried to communicate with him in these seven months but I have not succeeded very well”.

But does Renzi really find him more reliable?

“Renzi is a competent and experienced politician, he works for a house of reformists which is the project for which I entered politics. I come from the business world. Calenda now works for the Calenda house”.

Do you think that with Renzi you will have more dialogue and opportunities for real confrontation?

“Renzi is open to dialogue and discussion with everyone and I hope that Calenda reflects on what is happening and together they find the solution to work again on the Third Pole project”.

But didn’t Calenda warn you when she announced her break with Renzi?

“We learned about it from a tweet while we were working in the Chamber. In addition to not going through the national assembly”.

Renzi said that she doesn’t need an armocromist like Schlein because her favorite color is the blue of the workers’ overalls. But you are the owner of the Grupponi factory, aren’t you?

“I’m used to working inside the factory, not staying in the office. What I can give to politics is the result of my training and experience: I worked in a foundry and I know the industrial production processes first-hand. I want to help create a policy adhering to reality that recognizes the criticality and the priorities with which to tackle problems and try to find solutions”.

Action Senator Marco Lombardo says you don’t deserve the title of Honorable Member. And that she left the party with a text message.

“Courage is needed to tell the truth dear Lombardo. Offenses are one of the reasons why I felt uncomfortable in the party. Personal attacks are known and violent as well as groundless. It is always the fault of others for them: the voters if party leaders don’t vote Action if they don’t agree with Calenda. Calenda’s problem is that he underestimates and doesn’t consider the opinion of others. And he offends me when he accuses Renzi of mugging me: I’m a professional. And if he had agreed to confront with me and others would not have destroyed the credibility of an alliance for which we are working”.

So you’re done with Calenda?

“He screwed up a project for fear of losing his leadership and facing a congress democratically. For the rest, there is nothing personal for me even if in recent hours they have attacked me personally. Carlo is an intelligent man, I think sooner or later he will visit us in the house of liberals and democrats which is always open to him is all they want to be a part of it”.