Third Pole, the rupture is of long term. Calenda freezes everyone: “Divided in European elections”

The following day not only confirmed the gap between Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi. But it crystallizes over time. And the leader of Action does this: “We will go to divided Europeans”, he says in Today is another day. Words that raise the concern of some, both in Italia Viva and in Action, for the tear and failure of the Third Pole project. “Going divided for the Europeans would be madness,” a centrist lawmaker vented to Adnkronos. The 4% threshold, according to current polls, looks difficult for the two parties to overcome if they run alone. And that’s why there are those who hope, once the dust of the breakup settles, that a relationship can be resumed little by little in the coming months. In addition, it is explained, the relations between the parliamentarians of groups IV and Action in the Chamber and in the Senate – “net of some pasdaran” – would be more than positive, certainly “better than those between the two”, understood as Calenda and Renzi.

Ettore Rosato and Elena Bonetti for IV as Maria Stella Gelmini and Enrico Costa for Action would have tried to close the deal until the last minute. But things turned out differently. No agreement and exchange of mutual accusations about who, between Calenda and Renzi, blew up the single party. A question and answer that has continued to this day. “We had made a commitment” after the policies “to form a party together, but when we got to the point, Renzi said no,” reiterated Calenda. The leader of Italia Viva gives the opposite version of the facts: «There is nothing to break with, Carlo let the press know that the single party was dead, it is useless to cling to responsibilities, I only regret that there was no political reason” Renzi looks to the future, announces that he will return “for Italy. We will have to start reformist, we need to reorganize Italia Viva”. , even though the Calenda no longer exists”.

Then, in the afternoon, Italia Viva publishes a decalogue of the ’10 fake news’ about the gap between the question of money and that of the management of Il Riformista. The only thing Calenda and Renzi agree on is keeping the parliamentary groups together. A matter of numbers. Both for funding that would otherwise be lost, and because currently neither Action nor IV have the necessary numbers to form autonomous groups. Raffaella Paita, president of the senators, is among those who defend a recomposition: “Looking to the future, as the groups remain united, rethinking is not excluded. I hope that all operations attributable to reformism will come together for the European elections, to challenge right-wing and left-wing populism”. it makes no sense to present two Renew Europe parties that say the same things, have the same characteristics and are distinguished only by their electoral symbol. We need an operation that unites us”. give up, a reformist space is more needed than before.” But the leaders are at a breaking point.