“Third pole, we don’t want to break up the groups, but we won’t be laughed at by Italy” – Corriere.it

“Our intention is not to break up the groups in Parliament, but neither is Italy to laugh at us”. Raffaella Paita, a very loyal Renziana, is the group leader of the contentious Action-Italy team alive in the Senate. And now, while the Third Pole has crumbled, with one hand she holds out an olive branch, with the other she rebuffs.
Senator Paita, you with “Matteo” are unique, but in Palazzo Madama you play a guarantee role. What will she say at the first showdown with Action?

“If we are together, we must respect each other. And we are also undergoing attacks in the grillino style ». Really? «The other day Calenda said: “In my professional and political life I have never received indictments” and other nice references».
He was referring to her and Renzi…

“I don’t know if he meant me. When there was a flood in Liguria, I was regional councilor. I was charged with manslaughter and manslaughter for failing to give an alert. Five years of ordeal: I was acquitted. Calenda’s words hurt me. Judgments are given after the end of the trials: our community must be firmly guaranteed”.
What will he ask, concretely?

«I hope that Carlo is also present for this clarification. We will ask him for an explicit commitment on the desire to create a single list for the Europeans. Calenda, interviewed by Floris, first said that the joint lists would not be made. To the Courier instead he said the opposite.
Which Charles are we to believe?”
So you risk the splitting of the atom (reformist)…

«The awareness of what is at stake is all there. And for this reason we have not understood the unilateral will to break the process for a single party. For me, politics prevails over everything. If there is agreement on the political issues, we will overcome the rest».
Renzi and Calenda haven’t even said “hello” to each other for months, how can you continue to be together?

«Actually Matteo greets everyone. There is no doubt that, in order to start again, the memory of certain attacks would have to be erased. But they always came from Calenda. So far, in the Senate, we have worked profitably. I have never used offensive phrases towards Carlo».
But «Il Riformista», a newspaper of which Renzi is director, dedicates extensive articles and even cartoons against Calenda and Azione. Perhaps you lack a little self-criticism?

«I speak for what Renzi said and did. A map with all the provinces commissioned by Action did not go down in Calenda. But it’s not the fault of the Reformist if Action loses pieces».
If you had to really try to recompose, even changing the group leaders, would you be willing to get involved?

«I will do what Iv asks me: I grew up in a party since I was 14, I know what it means to do politics. I didn’t join a board of directors.’
Three adjectives for Calenda?

«I don’t think I have to give definitions about Carlo. I have always avoided using the wrong tone against him. Which he didn’t do to me. The only word that comes to mind: it’s a bit unfair, but I’m not offended».

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