Franco Gabrielli enters politics: "In the center-left without ambiguity"

"I could have waited for the birth of a government that would perhaps entrust me with some tasks. But that's not what interests me. I believe it is more important to commit myself personally to building a new idea of ​​the country."

Franco Gabrielli, former police chief, announces in an interview with Corriere della Sera his decision to enter politics and to accompany Ernesto Maria Ruffini's project.

"I do it without asking for roles or guarantees: the project comes first, then the rest", he says.

The position, he clarifies, in the centre-left is "without ambiguity". "We are not looking for an equidistance between right and left - he adds -. We do not imagine a self-sufficient centre, destined to irrelevance. Our position is in the centre-left, with the ambition of making it broader, more credible and capable of governing. Not a sum of acronyms united against someone; an alliance built around an idea of ​​the country".

Gabrielli does not veto Renzi for the centre, "he has long declared that he wants to place himself in the centre-left. This fact cannot be ignored". Su Calenda states instead that it will be up to the new project to build a proposal capable of appealing to him and his electorate too.

On the Campo Largo primaries he warns: "The primaries can be a useful tool, but the order of things must be respected. First, a shared program, a political perimeter and common rules are built. Then, if necessary, citizens are asked to choose who should take on the responsibility of leading that project. It would be suicide to organize the primaries as a count between parties."

Gabrielli also intervenes on the growth of Roberto Vannacci's political strength: "Vannacci's success is also the demonstration of the government's failure, especially on the issues of immigration and security. Vannacci today says many of the things that Giorgia Meloni said when she was in the opposition. But it's one thing to make big shots from the opposition; it's another to govern complex phenomena."