Prodi warns Schlein: “Defining alliances without a program makes you weak”

Before agreements with other parties, it is necessary to define the program. This is the warning of the former prime minister Romano Prodi to Elly Schlein. After the hugs and the conversation between the new secretariat dem and Joseph Conteboth present in the square in Florence alongside the students in the anti-fascist demonstrations, Prodi interviewed by Lucia Announced to In half an hour more on Rai3 he reiterated what he had already said in an interview with Republic in recent days: “I am convinced that Schlein now has to define the program of the Democratic Party: only when there is a precise program then a political force is the driving force of the alliance, but if it starts from the alliances when it does not yet have a program, then it becomes weak”.

And to those within the Democratic Party and the left who accuse Schlein of being too radical, Prodi clarified: “They accuse you of being radical, but there are some issues in which you have to be radical, everyone has a minimum wage, everyone has the defense of the workplace. On these issues, the party must be precise and clear, a little radicalism is needed in principles”. But, having specified this, the former prime minister adds: “Schlein must aggregate society, this is a very important task if one day the center-left wants to take over the majority of the country. Alliances and openings must absolutely be made, and made in such a way that they can last in the future.” time”.

And will a collaboration between Schlein and Bonaccini be possible? “It doesn’t have to be done necessarily, but for me it’s better. What needs to be there is a compatibility of the proposals, the homogeneous party is extremely dangerous, but in the dialectic there must be collaboration even in the diversity of the proposals”.

As for the line of the Democratic Party on the war in Ukraine, for Prodi “If Atlanticism is only weapons and no diplomacy, be careful. Talks of aid for Kiev and diplomacy must go together, we cannot get used to the war lasting all ‘infinite. And if you ask me if we are close to peace, I think not”.

Finally, with respect to the decision of Melons to convene the next council of ministers in Cutro, site of the massacre of migrants in recent days, Prodi underlines: “Okay, as long as they deal with the issue of immigration and Calabria: I know that area well, it’s a cemetery of industries, one thing that to look at her is frightening. “ezzogiorno I don’t see her”.