"With the forces of the progressive alliance we no longer have any intention of ever doing the right a favor by dividing us. We will remain united and united to build the alternative, and not alone, but hopefully together with you". The secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein said this at the national assembly of Terra Comune in Rome.
"The first thing you give us today is a method: as you said - he added -, here you don't all think the same way about everything, but you have decided to listen to each other, to make your differences a value, and to be able to discuss until you find a synthesis that allows you to take a step forward together. This is exactly the work we are doing with the forces of the Progressive Alliance".
Fratoianni: 'Processions called by the unknown 'Italy in the square', questions must be asked'
"Naturally, as far as we are concerned, violence is never an answer, it is always the problem. Because it obscures the protests and risks obscuring their reasons. However, we must read what happens, because distancing ourselves and condemning the violence is right and sacrosanct, but it is not enough when, as happened yesterday, we see young people, very young people, convening using acronyms that are unknown to me at least." Nicola Fratoianni, of Avs, said this on the sidelines of the national assembly of Terra Comune, in Rome.
"Yesterday there was an acronym that called for demonstrations, Italy in the square, of which at least I cannot trace any origin: we need to ask ourselves questions, because - added the leader of the Italian Left - otherwise even the right, dutiful distancing from the violence risks not being sufficient to organize a response, to understand what is happening in particular among the younger ones". So you have some suspicions about the matrix? "I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, I'm just saying - Fratoianni's reply - that I tried to understand what's happening, because understanding is the job of those who do politics. Frankly there are many aspects that I can't put into perspective. And when this concerns young people, the very young, it's an issue that needs to be explored in depth, to understand. Because, I repeat, distancing oneself, condemning violence, however necessary, otherwise risks not being sufficient".
The progressive camp "is missing centimeters" to find an agreement on the issue of Ukraine which "will be filled as soon as possible". "As we can see, even on this front, progress is continuous and significant - he explained - already in Parliament, on the occasion of the latest resolutions on the European Council. And the centimeters that are still missing to define a full agreement will be filled as soon as possible".
To bring the electorate that had mobilized for the referendum on justice closer to the progressive camp, "we must continue to do what we are doing, that is, pronounce together, in chorus, and in unison, as happened yesterday, very clear words regarding the alternative we have in mind: a country that instead of investing in weapons invests in healthcare, in schools, in research, in salaries, in the salaries of Italians who have lost 9.2% of their purchasing power from 2021 to today".
We must "invest resources, as this plural platform which is calling us to discuss this morning asks us - he added -, invest them for a transition to the agroecological model, for food sovereignty, for healthy, fair food, to change a model which on this front in recent years has seen hundreds of thousands of medium-small businesses disappear in favor of large companies, the large food industry, large-scale retail trade. These are models that do not hold up and require a point of view and a gaze capable of indicating an alternative. This is how we recover the spirit of that referendum, with the need to offer this country a clear alternative".
