Calabresi and Fedez protagonists at Leopolda: support for Milan and controversy on the Pulp Podcast

From an incumbent mayor, Vincenzo De Luca, to a candidate for election, Mario Calabresi. If yesterday at Leopolda the protagonist was 'the sheriff of Salerno', today it was the turn of the journalist-writer who at the opening of the second day once again received the support of former prime minister Matteo Renzi: "I would very well see him as mayor of Milan".

From the stage Calabresi spoke of Milan between lights and shadows and criticized a certain way of being 'left': "I don't like one thing, that of being a bit of a teacher", the criticism. Calabresi, in dialogue with the Lombard regional councilor Lisa Noja, said he was convinced that the city has "grown a lot and has become an attractive place, truly a European capital. But in its progress - he observed - there have been parts of the population who have been left behind and feel left out, as if it were a shop window beyond which they cannot enter. The most obvious things are the cost of living and the cost of houses. Today we need to give new answers to new needs and problems". Among the priorities that should be at the top of the left's agenda for Calabresi is that of security: "If people tell you that they are afraid, you have to take charge of it, you can't tell them 'you don't understand'. Too many times on the left we say that the people and the voters don't understand. It can't be done." Another protagonist of the day in Florence was Fedez, on stage together with Ivan Grieco to talk about his Pulp Podcast. The rapper did not mince words on the bill on anti-Semitism, amidst some applause but also just as many buzzes from the room: "If this is a priority for the country....I find it a huge stra...t". Then he added: "Can we say that we don't agree with Liliana Segre or is she untouchable? Let's hope we haven't committed the crime of lèse majesté". No reply from Renzi who, however, had already made it clear in the morning: "We are always with Liliana Segre, without ifs or buts".

Fedez was anything but defensive even when he responded to criticism on Pulp Podcast, the program he hosts and visible on streaming platforms. "The fact that Meloni came to the podcast caused such a stir. But when she was at Mentana I didn't see this great controversy." And, again, "we are often criticized for being chicken coops. But whoever says this has never seen an episode".

Before leaving the Leopolda, there was also time for Fedez to take a look at the Tajanometer, the hardback with the likeness of Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani which 'sentences' the degree of reliability of people depending on the length of their skirt. A judgment that the rapper would not have passed, Renzi himself jokingly says: "We gave him the test but seeing how he dresses we decided that he is not reliable".