"We will have to decide how to behave if the center-right goes ahead with the deeply wrong choice of nominating the most divisive political leader there can be, because every political leader is divisive, but when we talk about the last 25 years, it is difficult to think of a more divisive political leader. of him".

A few days before the start of the voting to elect the new president of the Republic, this is the position of the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta on the hypothesis of Silvio Berlusconi as Mattarella's successor at the Quirinale.

"There is no right of precedence that the center-right can boast in indicating the President of the Republic - said Letta opening the PD management - a respectful attitude on our part has been confused with a right that does not exist, it is not that the center-right should simply evaluate the best balance within it. It would be a profoundly wrong choice, just as the squirrel's logic of seeking votes in a dynamic that is not that of the time we are living is wrong. In Parliament - concluded Letta - no one has a majority, everyone must consider being a minority with responsibility, which is the attitude with which we operate ".

The center-right, however, seems to be compact on the name of the leader of Forza Italia. "Berlusconi may or may not like but he has been elected three times by the Italians to be prime minister," said Lega secretary Matteo Salvini. Adding: "In the next few days we will see if the majority is there or not, but unlike the left I do not veto anyone".

Salvini said he saw the number one of Forza Italia "in shape: it takes me three signatures to be 85 like him. I'm 48 and the pain in my shoulder, back, teeth, head. And things he made it out of his life. Berlusconi - he continued - was determined. My commitment is that the center-right is united from now to the election of the President of the Republic and then beyond ".

Berlusconi's name is obviously the one hoped for by Forza Italia: "With conviction and determination, the leaders of the center right officially asked President Berlusconi to accept the candidacy for the Quirinale: it is a fundamental step that fully confirms the reasons for the alliance, for the present and for the future ”, said Anna Maria Bernini, president of the Azzurri senators.

Matteo Renzi also makes his analysis: “A center-right candidate can obtain a consensus from part of the M5s and the Democratic Party, which has not excluded him. And if it responds to the interest of the Italians also on our part ”, said the leader of Italia Viva. Explaining: “If there is a credible candidate to vote who serves the interests of Italy and the Italians, we are ready to do so. We need to see who he is and what his profile is. "But the center-right - Renzi warned -" must bear a different name from that of Silvio Berlusconi. Will they be able to do it? ".

(Unioneonline / lf)

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