Leopolda, Renzi proposes a 'German contract' for the center-left and nominates Mario Calabresi for Milan

Clint Eastwood said: 'If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster'. Politics is not made on the basis of personal relationships, it is made on the basis of ideas. So I say to Conte and everyone else: if you want to have substantive discussions, we're here. Maybe with a German contract. Continuing to argue in the center-left means giving the country to Meloni and giving the Quirinale to Meloni. Matteo Renzi said this on the sidelines of the Leopolda. 'I will not be complicit in the fact that Giorgia Meloni goes to the Quirinale - he added -. I brought Sergio Mattarella to the Quirinale, I didn't bring Matteo Salvini to the Quirinale. So I don't need to give guarantees: I need to bring the votes into a bet that has clear boundaries for everyone, and therefore no one can afford to go beyond these boundaries'.

After four years of Meloni's government, families are poorer, people are leaving, there is less money in their pockets, bills and mortgages cost more, if the center-left starts arguing and loses the elections they should be locked up. So we are the ones who say: let's worry about the problems of families and leave the skirmishes between leaders aside. I am in a centre-left which is the alternative to the centre-right. This is why at this moment I think that, before thinking about who will lead, who will decide the primaries, it is important to think about ideas - he added -. I want a reformist, guaranteeist centre-left, then it is clear that whoever has the most votes will lead.

We'll see if it's Conte or if it's others, but that's the least of the problems. We cannot start from who is driving if we don't know where we are going. For Renzi, 'the problem is therefore not who is driving. After that, I am personally one of those who thinks that never before has there been a need for great attention to the issues of guaranteeism, reformism, the living conditions of Italians, not the Conte-non-Conte chatter, which I personally believe is absolutely not important compared to the debate we are experiencing.'

Matteo Renzi returns to talk about a 'German-style contract' as a possible solution to create a synthesis within the centre-left and explains: so 'we know what you do, when you do it, why you do it and in what times'. And then he adds, speaking to Leopolda, again: 'let's stop with these internal discussions that leave the time they find'. The German contract is a political agreement in which the different forces that decide to govern together negotiate a common document in which they set the main objectives.

'I would very well see Mario Calabresi as mayor of Milan'. The leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi said this while introducing the journalist Mario Calabresi to Leopolda, who will talk about his book in a debate with Lisa Noya.

'Milan has grown a lot and has become an attractive place, truly a European capital. But in its run there have been parts of the city, of the population, who have been left behind and feel cut off, 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 housing. Many of the people who run the city, such as bus drivers or teachers, cannot live there. We must build the future of Milan. Today for Milan we need to give new answers to new needs and problems. This was said by Mario Calabresi, former director of Repubblica e Stampa, ready to run for mayor of Milan for the centre-left, speaking at the Leopolda work in Florence.

'If they tell me I'm left-wing, I say yes. But I don't like one thing, that part of being a bit of a teacher. If people tell you I'm scared, I feel insecure, you can't tell them, 'no look, I'll explain to you that you're wrong'. You have to take on the fear of that person, the feeling, the perceptions of people, you have to see them. And at that point - he explained - you can't tell him 'you don't understand', that's not the way. You can say I understand and listen to your point of view, maybe I have a proposal that goes in another direction. Too many times on the left we say that he hasn't understood. It cannot be said that the people and the voters do not understand. We must respect them, understand them and propose solutions.'

'We have a government that has decided that foreign children, who we call that even though many were born in Italy, are redistributed beyond a certain quota per class. I find it profoundly wrong to think that there are guilty children scattered around. When I attended school it was a possibility of social lift. Today the school where I went is made up of 108 children, only one of whom has both Italian parents.'