After the failure of the single party, between Italia Viva and Azione, Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda began a work of persuasion to “repopulate” the ranks of their respective parties. But after an initial moment in which everyone took new faces from each other’s ranks, there was a confrontation to stop shirt changes. From that moment on, the two separate leaders in the house began to look around. And after Enrico Borghi who moved from the Democratic Party to Italia Viva, now it’s the turn of another ex dem who, however, moves to Action. Indeed, Alessio D’Amato, a former Lazio regional health adviser and center-left candidate for governor, would be the last of the “new entrants” in Calenda’s party. The official announcement will arrive on Monday during a press conference in the Senate, together with the leader of the group Action in the Chamber Matteo Richetti and the spokesperson and assistant secretary of the party Mariastella Gelmini.
D’Amato resigned from the National Assembly of the Democratic Party on June 18 after Elly Schlein’s participation in the demonstration organized by the M5S against the precariousness of work. «Not even brigades and balaclavas – he wrote on Twitter referring to the words spoken on that occasion by Beppe Grillo on the stage of the pentastellato -. It was a political mistake to participate in the demonstration.” D’Amato could become, it is explained, coordinator of Action in Lazio and then run for Lazio’s main candidate in the European elections. there could be a high school challenge with Marta Bonafoni, coordinator of the Democratic Party and likely leader of the dem, and Nicola Zingaretti. Strada.
«My objective is always the same – declared the leader of the party Carlo Calenda – to rebuild this reformist area that the Democratic Party no longer represents. I am not interested in running a buying campaign to restore the old balance of the Iv-Azione group in Palazzo Madama, but simply continuing with the political project ». Osvaldo Napoli, from the Secretariat for Action, echoed him, declaring: “D’Amato’s likely accession marks the birth of a new liberal, pro-European and popular reformism that Elly Schlein’s Democratic Party will never be able to interpret”. The change in Senate group leader post between Raffaella Paita and Enrico Borghi could also be announced on Wednesday.
Source: IL Tempo
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