by Alessio Garofoli
Carlo Calenda returns to pose the theme of his candidacy for mayor in the Rome elections to be held in October. And with the usual understatement Letta whips, who has not yet decided not only the candidate, but also whether or not to keep the primaries.
At the state or the Democratic Party supports “the Rays or me, because others have not applied. Read must make a choice: if he really wants a reformist and change profile or if he wants, especially in Rome, to go after a local ruling class, including the Democratic Party as well as the right, that this city has disintegrated, together with the Rays in the last 5 years “. So he says Calenda, guest of ‘Start’ SkyTg24. And it is, he adds, “a factual decision, we can no longer speak only of political alchemy, at this moment in the field it is me and the Rays, I refuse to continue to speak only of the Democratic Party, of primary and all the things the Romans don’t give a damn about. From this morning I leave with the program for the city, then I will see Letta when he wants, when he can, maximum availability “.
Statements that will certainly delight many in the Nazarene but which pose a real political question: does the Democratic Party have anyone to nominate? And if so strong enough? Calenda has been betting for months on “what has he done”, and now he is moving forward along this line. On the mythological primaries, which he has always refused, he insists: “From 12 October they appear and disappear according to the convenience of the Democratic Party: they appear when they have to keep me at bay and say we can’t support you; they disappear when there is the hypothesis of the sentence of the Rays, of taking the field of Zingaretti. Now they reappear, because you don’t know what to decide. It is quite evident that in a situation of this type we have lost five months.- continues the leader of Action – I kept everything suspended so as not to tear, then the Roman ras of the Democratic Party nominated Gualtieri without Letta’s knowledge, who had not even arrived practically at the Nazarene and now the primaries are repeated. I am leaving this morning with the program, I do not think we can do another four months to talk only about primary, from now on I speak of the city. Do we want to sit with Letta, find a ticket, find a team? Extremely disposable, I am not willing to waste more time ”. And away, towards new episodes of the soap opera. Until Letta puts an end to it, in one sense or another.