“Never hostile to him, I feel embarrassed for the third pole”- Corriere.it

«I am embarrassed by what is happening in the third pole, I have never, never, ever opened my mouth in a negative way towards Carlo Calenda. I defy anyone to find my personal statement of hostility towards him ». Matteo Renzi, leader of Italia viva, guest of the Sunday coffee by Maria Latella on Radio 24. “On your part, there is an inexplicable personal tension that derives from some form of a relational nature that I cannot understand”, added Renzi. Words that follow the conversation that Calenda had with the Corriere della Sera, in which the leader of Azione explains his regret for the behavior of the former ally and of Italia viva tutto: «Every day a bludgeon, Boschi says I’m crazy, Renzi claims I took the wrong pills (…) I think the time has come for a time out, if I want to at least save dignity”. Calenda and Renzi, who have been on a collision course for some time and now at the end of their centrist political project entitled Third Pole, have parliamentary groups in common in Parliament and the formal division of the two components would cause shifts in the mixed group with economic repercussions.

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