It’s almost a year before the European elections and political maneuvers are coming to life to present themselves in the best way in the important appointment. Matteo Renzi is working on another political transformation and intends to expand the consensus (and militants) base of Italia Viva by creating a new formation that aims to represent the center of the Italian political landscape. The former prime minister aims to rally the dissatisfied party he leads on the one hand, now the Pd of Elly Schlein, but above all that of Forza Italia. The death of Silvio Berlusconi opened up a sea of opportunities for Renzi in this sense, given that Renzi has always been admired by the founder of Mediaset and seen by many as his possible ally if not his heir.
“The European elections of June 9, 2024 serve to re-launch the idea of a credible Europe. These are not a mega-national poll, but destined to change Europe at a time of major global transformations. And therefore the only solution, the leader of Italia Viva, on Enews today. to offer a reformist, centre-based alternative to right-wing dominants and left-wing populists,” he wrote, the daily column “Il Centro” on his official website would be exactly his name. The “serious reformist pole” imagined by the former prime minister is a space ready to welcome democrats far from Secretary Schlein, who is considered too left-wing, and forzists who are in crisis without the party’s historic founder and leader.
“If the Center does well, we will be attractive to those inside the Democratic Party who were disappointed by ‘Forse Italia’ and couldn’t stay at Schlein. Elly’s leadership – let’s call it that – is the opposite of reformism. The left only wins if it appears in the centre: Sanders in America and they won with Clinton, Obama and Biden, not Ocasio-Cortez. In the UK they won with Blair and they will win with Starmer, not Corbyn”, Renzi told La Repubblica yesterday, “The Democratic Party is far left and the right is very dominant “As long as it lasts, there will be huge areas for a new center,” he said.
But above all, the recruitment of Azzurri will play an important role in the European elections of 2024, which is a crucial issue for the parties, weakening a centre-right that is already at odds over alliances, which is the real problem for popular parties. Those approaching the conservative group ECR, which includes Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers in Italy and parties such as Vox Spaniards and Polish Law and Justice, seen by many moderates as too extremist. “Tajani does not want the German right of Afd, who flirts with Salvini, who sponsored Le Pen, who spoke with Meloni, who loved the lost Vox in Spain. European right is more crooked than Güzel’s plot. We are serious,” attacked Eugenio Scalfari’ He is talking to the newspaper he founded.
Referring to the Basque Nationalist Party sitting with Italia Viva on the liberal podiums of Renew Europe, “We will use it for the Central European elections, since Europe is governed in the centre. In Spain: our Basque friends make the difference.” His votes will be decisive for the formation of a possible new government in Brussels and Strasbourg and led by socialist Pedro Sanchez. “The same thing will happen for European institutions: a center will be needed outside of Vox and Le Pen,” Renzi said with conviction.
What is certain is her divorce from Carlo Calenda’s Act, which must be formalized at the Italia Viva parliamentary assembly scheduled for September 5-7 in Palermo. Therefore, before the October 15 congress, the date Renzi would perhaps want to see his new Center standing. “I’ve already given everything to Calenda. I made him minister and ambassador, I gave him the signatures that without him he could not continue to lead the candidate and the list. Unfortunately Carlo left things unfinished: he did it to the EU Parliament, the Municipality of Rome, and he did it with the third polar federation. “I’m sorry, but I respect their choice. But I’m interested in something else. We have a vision in Europe, our relationships, our credibility: I’m working on that, nothing else.”
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Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
