ROME – “We found ourselves with Renzi in the middle of the field, this formula that you journalists have caressed and built on the wide field, without even being informed, but at the end of a football match and dozens of interviews with Renzi and protagonism pushed by Renzi, and with the Democratic Party who said ‘don’t start controversies’ and don’t place vetoes. But here is a serious political problem.” This was said by the president of the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte, guest of the last episode of Porta a Porta on Rai1, answering a question on the behavior of the Democratic Party in relation to the centre-left political alliance project.
“It is clear – explained the former prime minister – that at the moment in which the 5 Star Movement says that a wound has opened, with this explosive bomb (for Conte it is Matteo Renzi in the alliance, ed.) that is placed in this field wide that no longer exists – shall we certify it tonight? It no longer exists – and from the Democratic Party and its secretary Schlein we have the answer to a real, serious political problem, the answer ‘I don’t engage in controversy’, then there is something wrong. There is no awareness on the part of the current leadership of the Democratic Party that we are posing a serious problem: we are talking about public ethics, not a personal veto.”
