Riccardo Magi new secretary of +Europa: “Now let’s join the liberal-democratic forces”

Riccardo Magi he is the new secretary of +Europa: the former leader of the Radicals and one of the founders of Emma Bonino’s party was elected at yesterday’s congress with 211 votes in favour. The new team sees the former mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti in the role of president and the historic spokesperson for Bonino Carla Taibi as treasurer. Magi takes the place of Benedetto Della Vedova who, before the start of the congress, hoped that it would be the Radical deputy himself who would succeed him at the helm of the party.

The concurrence of the election of Magi at the top of + Europe with that of Elly Schlein as new secretary of the Democratic Party opens up an unknown factor on alliances in the center-left alignment, in view of the European elections of 2024 (where we will vote with proportional representation and a threshold of 4 percent). Magi’s appointment portends a mending of Emma Bonino’s party with the third pole of Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi, after the alliance in the latest policies had jumped to the last minute by the will of the head of Action. “We need to understand what the friends of the Third Pole think of issues that are vital to us: we have always been open to contributing to the construction of a project that unites liberal-democratic forces”, said the new secretary at the end of yesterday’s congress.