Schlein’s shock beyond the Pd: Renzi overcomes his doubts and accelerates on the single party with Calenda

European elections of 2024, count it with the proportional

«Does this mean that the shopping campaign is now starting as the newspapers summarize? Nope! – writes Renzi -. Indeed, the opposite is true. You will see that especially at the beginning many will try to close the ranks of the leading groups. Don’t expect an exodus, don’t expect a shopping campaign. We are not aiming for the exodus of managers in 2023, but for the exodus of voters in 2024. Our bet is not the acquisition campaign, but the 2024 electoral campaign. There we will vote with pure proportional representation in the European elections. Our European family will be that of Renew Europe. And the political forces that make up Renew Europe are already credited today with more than 10% in the polls. Already now, in fact, Azione and Italia Viva, together with Più Europa, add up to more than 10%. In the coming weeks we will move forward decisively together with Action on the path of the single party. Calenda has proposed to speed up the times and we have said that we are. So we will work on a symbol, a manifesto, a name, adhesions in a democratic and fascinating path. The doors are open. And the united list of all the friends of Renew Europe, even those who like Più Europa perhaps will not join the single party right away, will be the novelty of the European 2024».

The goal is therefore the European elections of 2024, where each party will weigh itself with its own strength. And the single party must be ready by autumn, by the end of the year at the latest, in order to take advantage of the long electoral campaign until spring.

Renzi hoped in Bonaccini for the “European federation”

If Renzi had been resistant, in recent weeks, to immediately putting the fate of his creature, Italia Viva, in the hands of his former minister Calenda, the reversal of the predictions that came out of the gazebos of the Democratic Party therefore had the effect of an acceleration. Renzi in his heart hoped and was convinced that Bonaccini, his supporter at the time of the leadership of the Democratic Party, would win. And perhaps he thought that a rapprochement was possible with Bonaccini, perhaps a “European” federation in the 2024 elections. With Schlein, the political picture evidently breaks down and turns upside down.

Renzi opposed to a “personal” party of Calenda

Now forward with the single party, therefore, with the tight deadlines that Calenda had imagined regardless of the result. Of course, the problems remain. Above all for the characters of the two, both ambitious and not inclined to delegate: it is still an armchair for two. The basic point is that Renzi does not want the future party to have too much of the imprint of the Calendian party, starting with the name now engraved in large letters in the symbol of the federation that unites Action and Italia Viva. And not because Renzi is seriously thinking of replacing Calenda in the leadership of the Third Pole, but because of his aversion to the idea of ​​a “personal” party. For the former premier, the news, as they say in journalistic jargon, is not the birth of Calenda’s party but the birth of a liberal-democratic party linked to Macroni’s Renew Europe. A party, in short, destined in its expectations to change the playing field and to survive the leadership of the moment. That is in Calenda.