Renzi with a straight leg launches Silvia Salis for the 'centre', but she slips away

The name of Silvia Salis, the mayor of Genoa, returns to animate the wide field. The one still dragging her by the jacket into the debate is Matteo Renzi who, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, puts the square at the helm of the 'big centrist group' as early as next February and looks at the scenarios that would open up in the event of victory in the 2027 elections: "It is clear that Salis, not having the possibility of sitting in Parliament, would have the right, and probably also a little bit of the duty, to sit in government".

The mayor's "trenchant" response was not long in coming: "These are all very sterile discussions." Then she explains, a little piqued: "They continue to talk about me more than with me. I honestly believe that all this discussion isn't good for the progressive camp and isn't even good for the city, which is my primary concern and my primary commitment."

There's no lack of a 'punch' to Renzi: "These continuous escapes forward then force me to reiterate what I have always said. It's an exercise that is a bit tiring and I believe that it's not what the progressive camp needs, it's not what the country needs at the moment, which instead is looking for a coalition that presents a programme".

In fact, Renzi enters the still hot debate of the primaries with a straight leg and in the conversation with Corsera he also involves Franceschini: "I am working with Dario on the solution of dry primaries, in one round, with only two candidates", Elly Schlein and Giuseppe Conte. In short, a message to the secretary of the Democratic Party, if we add that Renzi estimates a good 8% for a possible centrist group.

But the dem leader doesn't fall for it and in Genoa she shies away from the topic by placing herself alongside Silvia Salis, between hugs and smiles during the general assembly of Volt Italia. "I am happy to have seen Silvia again today, with whom we work very well. The Democratic Party - underlines Schlein - fully supports her in her mandate to improve the lives of the Genoese. They are doing an excellent job and we are very happy to work together".

From the stage of the pan-European progressive party, the Dem secretary then talks above all about Europe. A crowd composed almost exclusively of young people harangues: "At the next political elections in Italy not only is the future of our country at stake, the future of the European Union is at stake and we are extremely aware of this. Europe today is surrounded by great powers or other actors who have a common interest, that of weakening it".

Schlein then presents his recipe for the 'old continent': "The answer in recent years has never been to split or abandon the European Union, but to democratize it and make it closer to that plan of the Ventotene manifesto which fulfilled a promise of greater prosperity for all peoples, starting from the new generations. Unfortunately, that promise has very often been betrayed by wrong choices, but above all by the lack of courage to truly unite, that is, by national vetoes".

Therefore "taking a step forward for European integration means two things: overcoming unanimity, because not even a condominium can be managed with unanimity, and therefore proceeding to change the treaties; and a large common investment plan for the European Union, as was the intuition of the Next Generation".