Embrace of the progressive camp under the stage of the CGIL. Elly Schlein, Giuseppe Conte, Nicola Fratoianni and Angelo Bonelli met in Piazza del Popolo after Maurizio Landini's speech - which inflamed many present - for a photo opportunity and a commitment to building the alternative starting from the defense of the Constitution. "Here is the spirit of the referendum - smiles Schlein - let's build the alternative together". "We are ready - reiterates Giuseppe Conte - and therefore we really hope that in the next few days we can start comparing ourselves with the other opposition forces". The central point remains, in fact, that of the program and the synthesis still to be built on issues such as Ukraine as well as on the perimeter of the alliance with the guarantees that the five-star members are once again asking for on Matteo Renzi. "We will certainly find a synthesis - Conte underlines however regarding Kiev - we must make an effort to find a synthesis, but the important thing is that no one thinks of re-proposing the failed policy of this government".
Tomorrow, meanwhile, another crucial step for the progressive camp will be the Dem assembly in which the statutory change will have to be approved to specify that in the event of close elections and the secretary's mandate expiring, the congress will still be held later. There will be talks right up to the end - it is reported - between the Nazarene and the reformist area on the device and for carrying out the meetings without too many shocks. However, there should not be an issue linked to the second name for the primaries (not foreseen by the Dem statute but on which the reformists had at a certain point sought support). While Salis once again calls himself out of the race: "I will not take part in the primaries or as a federation".
Schlein also has the task of mediating on issues such as support for Kiev or taxes. The reformists are also determined to ask for more details on the program and how the alliance intends to proceed on this. In the meantime, however, we look at the square in which the Dem secretary reads positive signals. "This is what we need, to build the alternative together, to be able - underlines Schlein - to reach out to those people who have mobilized and who perhaps have been more distant in recent years, or who perhaps no longer trust politics much, but have a very clear idea of what it means to defend our Constitution, which must be implemented to the full". This, underlines Angelo Bonelli, "is the start of a great season of mobilisations". "We must always be in the squares, with those who protest, with those who mobilize, today with the workers, with the workers of this country called to the streets by the largest Italian union, by many associations, those of the Via Maestra to say a very simple thing: we need to change direction".
The two Avs leaders immediately arrive at the procession in Piazza della Repubblica. Bonelli has the Fiom helmet on his head: "whoever stopped me, I imagine they will also stop Schlein and Conte, asked me to be united: the wide field has the great responsibility of being united, without tactics, it would be unforgivable to betray this request". While the delegations of the parties parade, the Dems, among others, with Arturo Scotto, Marco Furfaro, Susanna Camusso and the pentastellati with Riccardo Ricciardi, Vittoria Baldino, Francesco Silvestri, Gilda Sportiello, Davide Aiello near the stage arrive to greet Maurizio Landini first Schlein and then Conte. For both, selfies and handshakes take place in two distinct parts of the square. Someone tells Conte "don't bring Renzi in and hurry up with the program". He smiles and then moves to listen to Landini's speech from the square with the militants, as he had already done in other demonstrations in the past.
"He likes being around people", his parents underline. Below the stage Schlein, Fratoianni and Bonelli applaud Landini's attacks on the government. Applause from Avs also when it relaunches the capital budget, a theme on which the green and left alliance has been insisting for days. At the end the four leaders come together for a hug while the notes of 'Bella ciao' play.
