«The M5S? You can’t win alone. And loyalty is needed»- Corriere.it

«When I hear that there is no political line I smile: we are full of contents, but we are good at covering them with internal divisions. If someone doesn’t like it, say so, without making excuses. Criticisms are fine, I don’t ask for loyalty for myself but respect for the party. Whoever looks for the accident will always find me on the other side». Elly Schlein says it with a smile towards the end of her report to the Democratic Party leadership. Thus he tries to warn his internal opponents that he is at the helm of the party to stay: “The little game of attrition won’t work.”

The speech, which lasted over an hour and twenty minutes, with which he opens the proceedings after weeks of controversy fueled on any topic, sets the “agenda” with the horizon of the 2024 European Championships. There are seven “tracks on which we are working” . The Pnrr to be “promoted in the territories with debates promoted by parliamentarians” against the attitude of “this government which seems to suffer it and does not care about the delays it accumulates”. The second theme is the battle against the differentiated autonomy of Calderoli and the presidentialism. Then there are healthcare, the right to housing, the fight for work and against precariousness, a new model of sustainable development and measures to stem the climate crisis. Initiatives on which the call is for a collective effort for a “militant summer”, in the streets. “It is time to ask the whole party to mobilize us together on this agenda – says Schlein -. A militant summer, which takes us to the streets and among the people, gathering needs and proposing solutions. Acting as a point of reference for those who already experience the consequences of the choices of the Meloni government “.

But the secretary does not dribble the topics on which she has been harshly attacked. The hand extended to the allies of the M5S reached in the square of Rome convened against precariousness, but then harangued against the war by Moni Ovadia. «The upcoming elections in Molise (where yesterday the PD deputy secretary Maria Concetta Chimisso resigned, unhappy with the Schlein line, ed) we are allied with the M5S – recalls the secretary -. Do we agree on everything? No. Over Ukraine the distances are enormous». And precisely on the war, you pronounce clear words: “We are at the side of the Ukrainian people, we support them with every means, even with military aid”. However, the search for topics of confrontation with 5 Star allies, and not only, is not a mistake and will not stop. “To build an alternative to the right, on common issues we must unite our efforts – continues Schlein -, if Calenda invited me to a demonstration I would go there too, but I would not change my mind about the mayor of Italy. We start from ourselves, but we are not self-sufficient».

Once his men are in line, Schlein reserves the jabs for Matteo Renzi: «He accuses us of subordination: he is not the best suited to give us lessons given that five minutes after arriving at the Nazarene he invited Berlusconi to make a pact». And to Meloni: «he Intervenes at work with amnesties, a shame his words on the“ state lace ”». The tears remembering Flavia Franzoni, Romano Prodi’s wife who has just passed away, the quotes from songwriters dear to his generation and to his world, such as Daniel Silvestri and his «The things we have in common are 4,850», are the most emotional moments of the secretary’s speech. Which, at the end, collects two minutes of applause. After the debate, the Directorate unanimously approves not the entire report, but the 7 points that make up the “agenda”.

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