Renzi: 'The center-left must unite to avoid Meloni's return'

"Giorgia Meloni went to government not because she got the votes, as some propaganda has told us in a hammering way, but because she received a nice gift from her opponents who were divided into three parts, just like Julius Caesar's Gaul in the De Bello Gallico of the high school Latin versions. To prevent her from returning, the center-left must be united. And for us to be together we need ideas about the future. Does this mean not talking about the past? No one must recant. At least I don't ask them. And obviously I don't do them." It is an extract from Matteo Renzi's book 'When there was her. Italy after Giorgia Meloni' edited by Solferino and published by Corriere della Sera.

"Today we are discussing how to avoid the return of Salvini to the Interior Ministry, the advent of Vannacci - not Draghi - at Palazzo Chigi and the election of Meloni in place of Mattarella", explains Renzi: "This is what is at stake, nothing more, nothing less", "if they win they call all-in" and introduce "a de facto presidentialism". "If he held a referendum to introduce presidentialism he would lose it and go home", writes the leader of IV. According to him "the real referendum at this point will be the 2027 policies". And "the broad camp (understood as an alliance of Pd, M5s and Avs, ed.) alone is not enough", "we need a reformist subject to join these forces", or "a center force that looks to the left".