Matthew Renzi: "The Democratic Party? I don’t apologize and I won’t go back there"

“Absolutely not. I did a Festa dell’Unità, there were two thousand people, it was the one in Pesaro: so many people that they had to give back the money to those who had made restaurant reservations because they said there were too many people. I have no intention of returning to the PD. I’m not even thinking about it”. Matteo Renzi responds like this, on the sidelines of the event at the Teatro di Parenti in Milan for the 5 years of Italia Viva, to those who ask him if he feels like apologizing to the PD community.

“If the PD voters don’t want to vote for me – he continues – they are right not to vote for me. They should vote for the PD. We are aiming for a different vote than that of Elly Schlein’s PD: a moderate and reformist vote. I don’t regret civil unions, I don’t regret the 80 euros, I don’t regret the Jobs Act, I don’t regret the third sector, I don’t regret the law on autism”.

“I do not regret anything we have done. I am proud and I strongly support these reforms. Then to those who think that Giuseppe Conte can give left-wing patents – the Iv leader points out again – I humbly remind that he is the man who signed the Salvini decrees”.