Because Letta and Renzi will remain in awe
What Matteo Renzi says and what did he understand about Enrico Letta's Pd
That "rest in Italia Viva" announced by Matteo Renzi in an interview with the Messenger should not be understood only in the literal sense suggested by the formulation of the question on the possibility that he, in order to continue earning with trips and conferences abroad that they are providing him controversy, leave your new party. Which he improvised after the formation of the second government of Giuseppe Conte, in 2019, sponsored by himself to prevent early elections and the obvious victory of the center-right led by a Matteo Salvini in search of "full powers".
That "rest" must also be understood, or above all, as the intention not to re-enter the Democratic Party, now that Enrico Letta is at the helm, even though he was dethroned in 2014 by Palazzo Chigi, and no longer Nicola Zingaretti. Which Renzi now believed in tow of the grillini, in a "strategic", "structural", "organic" concept of an alliance that the senator from Scandicci had instead conceived only as temporary: to avoid or remove early elections , not to prepare an enhanced edition after the ordinary renewal of the Parliament, in 2023
A certain impatience or distrust for the way in which the new secretary of the Democratic Party is choosing the interlocutors with whom to meet and discuss, from Carlo Calenda to Giuseppe Conte, with whom he even proposed, then talking to journalists, "a fascinating adventure ", Renzi demonstrated it with these words, again in the interview with the Messenger :" At the moment no meeting is scheduled. I have no personal problem meeting Letta. He will let us know ”.
In fact, Renzi has other problems these days. That of writing a book to be presented in Italy – he himself revealed – “the lockdown is over” more or less in installments or spots during which we are spending Lent and we can also spend after Easter. Or the problem of daily health checks that were recommended to him by doctors after his secretary was infected with Covid 19. But there remains, indeed, the political problem of a clarification with the Latvian-led Pd. Which Renzi greeted with interest, not at all embarrassed by the abrupt break with "his friend Enrico" urged at the time to "stay calm" even while Renzi himself, fresh from his election as party secretary, was preparing to take his place as Prime Minister not considering him "suitable". And preferring rather to imagine it, in a telephone call intercepted with a general friend of the Guardia di Finanza, at the Quirinale. Where, however, Giorgio Napolitano had been confirmed for some months, not yet tired of the second term and tempted by the resignation that occurred in 2015. Meanwhile, relations with Letta had broken with that bell of the Council of Ministers exchanged with visible annoyance and the controversial resignation of the now a former prime minister also as a deputy for a golden exile in Paris, teacher of a prestigious school of politics.
There are those who, for example on the Reformist , have seen in the Democratic Party that Enrico Letta is redesigning even "a pure Christian Democratic reduced", but Renzi does not seem convinced. And perhaps he fears that with the grillini the new secretary wants to gypsy, so to speak, albeit with another step, or with another style of his predecessor, in view of the autumn administrative elections for now, but something else later: maybe in the light of the results of the races at the Capitol and its surroundings, let's say so in a broad sense.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-letta-e-renzi-resteranno-in-cagnesco/ on Fri, 26 Mar 2021 07:22:08 +0000.