Former minister Elena Bonetti recently decided to leave Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi’s party. And now she is thinking about a new political project, which is inspired by the idea of the Third Pole: “The Third Pole is not dead. The objective is to restart it without the Italia Viva that has disappeared. Restore confidence and hope to the many Italians who voted for us and cannot accept the failure of a political project that risks dying at someone’s whim. That’s why Per was born, an aggregation and participation laboratory that aims to build that space promised in the elections. Action? It has a liberal soul that the arrival of Gelmini, Carfagna, Bonanni and others strengthened. But Carlo Calenda understood that something broader and more plural was needed.”
Bonetti cited ‘Per’, the association he has just created with the acronym that stands for “Popular, Europeanists, Reformers”: “A cultural and political association – the intervention in the Repubblica – that aims to bring together and bring to dialogue realities that are often excluded public debate. Civic and business networks, young people, professionals and women that the parties do not listen to and do not involve in the most strategic dossiers for the country. The objective is to start a generative process, a new party that is born from an already structured force and an association like ours that includes civic realities and new leaders”.
There is also space for a passage about Renzi and a possible dialogue with Renzi, the former prime minister in this new project: “We dialogue with those who want to participate in this process. Renzi chose another, both in method and merit. If he wanted to restart the Third Pole, he had more than one path. Fix it with Calenda, for example; keep in the community those, like me or Ettore Rosato, who did not want to separate. I paid for saying that over and over again.”
Source: IL Tempo
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