“We have to demand his resignation.” Calenda breaks with Renzi on the Santanchè case

He, he says, “admits no shyness”. Because “all over the world it works that for a few lines of a copied thesis, a minister resigns. And therefore, in the face of what is emerging on Santanchè, how can we not ask her for a step back?”. In short, it was for Charles Calenda, the line that the Third Pole should follow would be clear. “Resign immediately”. He said it during the meeting of the centrist group. And more than saying it, she screamed it. And so, a few minutes from the beginning of the information from the Minister of Tourism at Palazzo Madama, the Third Pole group is in danger of splitting.

Because Matteo Renzi, and with him a large part of the group, has chosen a wait-and-see line. “First we listen to what Santanchè has to say, then we evaluate. But always reaffirming our guarantee approach”. Also because, it is the conviction of the former premier, what weakens Santanchè, and therefore Meloni, is the prolongation of the tension, remaining on the gridiron. “To attack head-on today would play into his hands.”

The intervention in the Chamber, on behalf of the group, was entrusted to Enrico Borgo, ex dem recently arrived in IV. And for this reason the Calendians snort, complain of a sort of gag. “Two speeches cannot be made, so we will listen to what Borghi has to say”, explains Calenda before entering the Chamber. “If what he says doesn’t meet our expectations, we will not fail to demonstrate our position,” the Action leader tells us.

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• Valerio Valentini

• Born in L’Aquila, in 1991. Grew up in Collemare, up there in the Apennines. Classical high school diploma, degree in Modern Literature at the University of Trento. Al Foglio since 2017. I wrote a book, “Gli 80 di Camporammaglia”, published by Laterza, with which I won the Campiello Opera Prima award in 2018. I like good books and good cinema. And cycling, everything, even the bad stuff.