“All my effort aimed at finding themes on which they can be created convergences with other forces. I’m absolutely ready.” The secretary of Democratic party, Elly Schleinsays she is ready to write a program with the other opposition forces starting from “ecological conversion” and come on “rights“: “We feel this responsibility. I hope that the results” of European elections “make the other opposition forces feel the same responsibility. For us the opponent is the right“, underlines Schlein interviewed at Republic of Ideas. “We want to nail the Meloni government to the salary questionwhich he is ignoring,” he added.
Elly Schlein speaks as the leading force of the Italian opposition, with the strength of 24.08% of preferences obtained, just under 5 percentage points from Giorgia Meloni’s party. But you also speak as the secretary of the party which turns out to be the first of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats: with the 21 MEPs elected, one more than Spain, that of the Democratic Party becomes the larger delegation within the second force of the Brussels hemicycle.
So it not only reminds the European People’s Party the need to avoid alliances with right-wing parties (“To the EPP I want to say that reaching an agreement with the nationalist right it means deny their story. It would mean denying the process of European integration) but proposes the expansion of the “Ursula majority” possibly only to the European Greens. “The popular ones won the European elections, there is no doubt”, recalls Schlein reiterating “the European family that gets one more vote has the right to express the candidate“. For this reason, “barring surprises, the EPP candidate for the European Commission is Ursula von der Leyen“. But “on perimeter of that alliance” the secretary of the Democratic Party assures a “very tight negotiation“. “We socialists we will never be part of an alliance with ID and the Conservatives, for us it is a red line,” reiterates Schlein. For this reason, “if the majority were to expand”, the only possibility would be to “expand it towards i European Greens“.
On Friday the secretary gathered the newly elected of the Democratic Party in Europe, on the third floor of the Nazarene. They were there Stefano Bonaccini and the “preference record holder” Antonio Decaro. And then Dario Nardella And Matteo Ricci, Giorgio Gori, Nicola Zingaretti, Cecilia Strada, Lucia Annunziata And Marcus Tarquinius. They will all meet again on Tuesday in Strasbourg for a first meeting. 24% is celebrated. “Extraordinary result,” says Schlein to applause. “We have reduced the distance from Fdi. We are coming”, urges the secretary, repeating what has now become the same slogan Post-European Democratic Party. A result, he observes in front of the elected representatives, which “also gives us a decisive role on the next European balances. The numbers and composition of our delegation call us to responsibility, but they also give us strength.” “For this reason – he announces – I will personally manage the negotiationbeing very clear on the conditions that our delegation will set for the composition of the next European bodies”.
