Florence, 10 June 20224 – “Nothing, it went badly. But I am proud to have undertaken this fight and I will fight again.” The senator says so Matteo Renzi commenting on the data of the Europeans of his formation, the “United States of Europe”. The group does not reach 4% and is out of the European Parliament. The words of Renzi: “Nothing, it went badly. Unfortunately the list United States of Europe it remained out of the European Parliament for a very short time. I’m very sorry and I would like to hug the volunteers who worked hard for this idea: you were wonderful. The gratuitousness of your service expands the heart. I would like to hug one by one the thousands of people who wrote my name on the ballot: I am truly honored to still represent the hope of so many people even if I would have preferred a few more votes to the list”.
The senator continues: “I am grateful to Emma Bonino and to all the political leaders who believed in it. But politics is a great school of life even when you don’t win. And so I can’t be sad, dear friends. Because I am very convinced that it was right to make this proposal, at this moment: today’s crazy world needs the United States of Europe and it was nice to affirm the reasons for a dream that goes against the grain.”
Renzi says he is proud: “We fought, we expressed ideas we believe in, we got involved. We didn’t have a quorum, what a shame. But today we will not stop fighting for this idea of Europe, the only one in which Italy can play a leading role. We will find ways to press the fight cultural and values for a different Europe. The absurd breakdown of the Third Pole weighs on the Italian result: we could have had seven reformist European parliamentarians together. And instead they are zero. How crazy. But the citizens have chosen and the citizens are always right: I wish the elected officials to honor their commitment in Strasbourg by giving them the most sincere compliments. We, by the Italian Parliament and from our roles of responsibility, we will continue to do our part with the smile of those who know that it is better to risk and lose an election than to scrape by and lose a challenge. That’s how we are – we men in the arena, Roosevelt would have said – and we will never change, for anything in the world. Long live the United States of Europe!”.
