Pd Assembly, Schlein: "Ready to be a candidate for prime minister with or without the primaries"

Schlein: "We condemn the violent, but do not cover up the peaceful protests"

Then the secretary addressed the topic of the violent protests of recent days throughout Italy: "We have nothing to do with the criminals, we have always condemned them, but they cannot use the violent to cover the voice of thousands of people who are peacefully protesting throughout Italy because they can no longer live". "The squares", he recalled, "are asking politicians to take responsibility for concrete choices for those who study, work and produce. The government is ignoring these voices. It was the longest-lasting and most inconclusive government, Meloni wasted a historic opportunity", Schlein said again, accusing the prime minister of having failed to make a reform "that would concretely change the lives of Italians for the better, who today are poorer and more angry in the streets than yesterday".

Then Schlein also commented on what has happened in the last few days, criticizing the executive again: "The Meloni government has done its utmost to sell a blow from the EU commission as a victory. Today it finds itself doing what we have been asking for since April, the cap on the price of gas. Since Meloni attacked me saying that it took me too many days to respond to his attacks, if he had responded six months ago we would have avoided a bloodletting of Italian families".

While returning to the Democratic Party, for the secretary, what has been formed in recent years with the action and proposals of the Democratic Party "is not just a program, but a vision of the future, a story that speaks to people's needs. We have given a concrete response to every criticism". "Now there is a mile to go, we are ready immediately to sit down with the other progressive forces to complete a common program", he then underlined. "This week too we wrote a resolution with 21 points of shared economic and social policy. But we need to be all of us, not alone, we need the entire progressive alliance that governs in the regions. We need to broaden, not narrow."