Ruffini on the wide field: 'There should be a step forward in responsibility and a third name should be sought'

It is a duty that all the political forces of the center-left are generous and a name is found, regardless of the primaries. But a third name doesn't exist if we don't first agree on what we want to do. The problem is not finding a man or a woman, but how to make a credible offer. I hope there is one last burst of generosity and responsibility, but if there are primaries it is obvious that we will have to be there. Let's hope it will be double-shift and with digital voting. Ernesto Maria Ruffini said this at the national assembly of Più Uno, underway in Rome.

The electoral law in some way invites the coalitions to indicate the candidate for prime minister - he added - and this is in fact an invasion of the prerogatives of the Head of State. Now everything is moved out of Parliament, into the party secretariats. We are abandoning the democracy of parliamentary representation and this goes unnoticed even by the left: the Constitution cannot be defended only when there is some more comfortable battle to wage.

Having the Constitution as a compass, he added, is the least that can be done. The next elections will be a watershed between those who respect the Constitution, the Resistance, everything that has accompanied us for 80 years, and those who are indifferent. So the important thing is to carry forward the Constitution, if the perimeter of the alliance is the Constitution it will find many citizens willing to vote for it.

On signatures, to make the collection less expensive to stand for elections, generous people present here, such as the deputy Bruno Tabacci, will be able to carry out an operation, together with other generous people in Parliament, with whom we talk, I am also talking about Magi. The fact remains that this electoral law has a representation problem.

It is clear that out of respect for parliamentarians we must ask them to know how they are organizing themselves to create groups within Parliament and then allow themselves to collect signatures to a lesser extent, added Ruffini. To those who asked him what kind of help he expects from Magi, Ruffini replied: Riccardo and Più Europa will also have to collect signatures, so I think it is a good thing that within the mixed group they are evaluating whether to get together and allow the creation of a new possibility and a new political offer and collect fewer signatures. But I still hope that the Council can intervene in time.