“From Montepulciano we want to strengthen the leadership of our secretary Elly Schlein and her management group, because we are the ones who from the first moment, before many others, believed in that political project not out of convenience but out of conviction. We are also the ones who, unlike some friends of the Democratic Party, also know how to read the party statute which provides that the national secretary must guide us in the political challenge”. The deputy and member of the PD national secretariat said it, Marco Sarracino, opening the proceedings of the three days of work of the areas of the Dem majority that supports secretary Schlein.
Together with the representatives of Area Dem of Dario Franceschini and Michela Di Biase, those of Dems of Andrea Orlando and Marco Sarracino and of Articolo 1 of Roberto Speranza and Nico Stumpo, there are parliamentarians and MEPs who did not support the secretary’s motion at the last congress such as Anna Ascani and Marco Meloni together with other neo-ulivists of CREA, including Antonioo Nicita, Matteo Mauri, Irene Manzi Beatrice Lorenzin, Andrea Casu, Toni Ricciardi, Marco Simiani and Lorenzo Basso. Also present were the MEP Dario Nardella and the deputy Gianni Cuperlo. The initiative, in which approximately 900 people are registered, began yesterday and sees Nathalie Tocci (director of the International Affairs Institute), Ambassador Enzo De Luca and Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara among today’s guests. The panel entitled “The rule of law, towards the constitutional referendum” includes Guido Raimondi (magistrate of the Court of Cassation and former President of the European Court of Human Rights), Edmondo Bruti Liberati (former Public Prosecutor of Milan).
In the afternoon at the session “Growing together. Countering Italy’s decline and inequalities”Speakers will include Maurizio Landini, general secretary of CGIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, general secretary of UIL, Andrea Cbird, CISL confederal secretary, Maurizio Marchesini, vice president of Confindustria, Simone Gamberini, president of Legacoop, Nico Gronchi, president of Confesercenti, Luca Bianchi, general director of Svimez, Walter Massa, president of Arci, Emiliano Manfredonia, president of Acli, Filippo Anelli, president of the Order dei Medici, Emanuele Felice, economist. The intervention of the President of Anci and mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi is also expected.
“Montepulciano was born for keep your attention high on what is happening in the world, on what is happening in Gaza and Ukraine, was created to finally indicate the right positioning of the Democratic Party on international issues. It was created to continue to criticize a development model”, added Sarracino, “which is producing injustices, gaps, inequalities that are no longer acceptable. Today we live in a country where 1% of the population holds 25% of the wealth or where an Amazon worker would have to work 2 thousand years to earn what Bezos earned in just one year. It is not only an issue of social justice, but also of competitiveness that does not hold up. We came to Montepulciano to talk about this, about how we will face the referendum on justice reform, of how solid industrial policies are needed after the work done in recent months, of how to reconnect with the world of schoolnow made up of an army of temporary workers. In Montepulciano we met to prepare the alternative that goes from the construction of a project that can speak to the country, from north to south, to the suffering of an Italy in which poor work is increasing, to which Giorgia Meloni denies the minimum wage, to those four million Italians who give up treatment because they don’t have the ability to access it. A project that addresses the drama of the hundreds of thousands of young people who leave Italy in search of a future elsewhere because they are forced to do so and not by choice.”
The dem parliamentarian reiterates “that we will not retreat from the great steps forward made on the political line by the Democratic Party and its leadership group in these two years. Which have led us to have a different perception among people and led to us being the first opposition force but also the first party in the South. A great project for the country also involves a great organization: we either change the Democratic Party now or we don’t change it anymore. We must tell ourselves this clearly, or we seize the opportunity for a real renewal in the party democratic, particularly in the territories, or we will not have other opportunities because when we return to the government of the country we will not be able to do so renovation that is not scrapping but the construction and valorization of a leading group that is formed only on the quality of the political battle, not because it is someone’s friend but because it builds a consensus in the territory in which it lives”.
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