The leadership of the Democratic Party unanimously approved the report by secretary Elly Schlein. The reformist wing, a minority of the party, did not participate in the vote. This is what we learned from some participants in the meeting. The vote was greeted with applause.
"The program is written with the entire alliance, knowing full well that we need to be inclusive, but that no one is as good as one in that discussion. Because no one has given us anything, if we are solidly the first opposition party we have earned it with sweat and commitment, to convince people one by one that they have given us double the votes of the other forces, in the European, regional and municipal elections. Generous yes, naive no", said Schlein in the party leadership's report to Nazarene.
"In the face of fears, we must offer hope and protection. We must build the alternative to defeat the right-wingers who have failed. They celebrated the longest-serving government with disproportionate fanfare, but stability, if it translates into immobility, does not do the country any good. You can stay in Palazzo Chigi for a long time while the country stands still, as Giorgia Meloni did."
"We must refine the common program, so that it is a binding pact with everyone. A pact with the Italians. First the common program, then the leadership, because whoever leads must lead the entire alliance, not just one party". "We are ready. The program must be refined together with the entire progressive alliance, with all those who want to build the alternative and it is essential that this path is made among the people. The program is written with the entire alliance".
"In recent years we have worked tirelessly together for the unity of the party and the progressive alliance, we have achieved both, we must be proud of it. There is a strategic alliance between forces that are autonomous but which together can beat the right. We will never again do the right the favor of dividing us. The journey is not complete but the alternative is a concrete reality: the compass is the Constitution".
"Meloni asks me to tell you one true thing, I tell him 10 - added Schlein -. They said to lower taxes, we are at record tax pressure in the last ten years, on the birth rate the right has made rhetoric but not politics, job insecurity especially affects women and young people... More taxes, more debt, skyrocketing cost of living, low salaries and no growth. This is their legacy".
On the electoral law, Meloni "is asking for trust, trust which isn't there. Like me, you were witnesses to the fact that yesterday behind the right-wing benches there were five colonels standing trying to see where the finger was going".
Prime Minister Meloni's reply arrives on social media: "Elly Schlein responds today to a question I asked her almost two weeks ago. At this rate I can do well at solving the problems of Italians. P.S. Ah, and obviously she does so by listing ten falsehoods".
And also Schlein's rejoinder: Meloni "can raise his voice and shout, but in the end the facts remain, and the Italians who experience it first-hand every day know it".
"Since Giorgia Meloni reproaches me about response times, I would like to point out that it took her four years to obtain these results" he added, reporting the data on "record taxes, stagnating salaries, very expensive energy, increasing poverty, healthcare at the end of its tether, historic low in births, economic immobility, decline in industrial production".
"This government - he added - is not held together by a vision of the future, but by a power pact based on an exchange: differentiated autonomy, blocked by the Constitutional Court, premiership abandoned even by its promoters, justice reform rejected by 15 million voters".
"I would like to close by removing a few pebbles from my shoe - the Dem leader had previously explained -. We have relaunched the party, we have grown in every electoral round, we have kept membership high, we have reopened historic offices, we have sent triple the resources to territories, we have brought the party back to where people expect it".
"We have restored the budget. A serious party must say what it does to do what it says. We are the leading party in most regions. In recent years they had bet that we would split and instead we are more united than ever. They had bet that I would not last six months and instead I have reached the end of my mandate, I think that is good news. They had bet on our arguments and divisions to prevent the construction of an alternative to Meloni. The last mile, the most important, is missing. that we must do together and united, until victory. The fear we arouse in those in power says that the path is right".
