Rosy Bindi watches Elly Schlein’s election closely and immediately sends important messages to the new secretary, marking territory against the latest arrival. In an interview with La Stampa, the former president of the Democratic Party – but he no longer has a card – fell hard: “I didn’t vote in the primaries. Neither of the two opponents convinced me. It is not an easy challenge to fulfill the promise of change and keep the party together. Certainly this vote closes the stage of renzismo. But it still leaves a residue, not a marginal one.”
“I’ve heard you talk about programmatic points, they’re good, for God’s sake, I liked what you said. It’s fine to talk about minimum wages, but if you’re in opposition – Bindi’s Schlein coup – it’s not your place to do it. When you are in the opposition what matters is the vision, convincing people that you will be capable of providing answers to the great challenges of the moment. And in his words I did not recognize this project. I wish she had gone to Crotone as the first act. A symbolic gesture that means, on immigration, that it is not an emergency, but a structural phenomenon, a new left is being built. And I didn’t hear her talk about the war on Sunday night.
Bindi, in conversation with the Piedmontese newspaper, makes a promise: “I will be an attentive observer of what Schlein will do. I don’t want it to end up like previous assignments of trust to a single leader, this time I’d like to see a political community rebuilt around a vision. When someone invoked the dissolution of the party, they were not very wrong… I continue to believe that the dissolution actually occurred with the Sunday vote, it is clear that what was there was no longer right. The party is – say the former parliamentarians – split down the middle, and being together is a good thing, but if you share the line, not if you create a confused unity”.
Source: IL Tempo
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