Calenda: "The single party is definitely dead, Renzi only talks to Obama and Clinton"

"We won't be able to build the party, because Renzi doesn't want to build it."

Carlo Calenda attacks on the divorce, even before the marriage has been celebrated, with Italia Viva.

“Renzi wants to keep the money and party of Italia Viva and you cannot give birth to three parties from two parties: it becomes ridiculous,” said the leader of Action leaving the Senate, answering the pressing questions of Enrico Lucci of Striscia La Notizia. Adding: « I don't know if there will be a new meeting today, but he doesn't come to the meetings. I haven't talked to him, because he only talks to Obama and Clinton ».

" In any case, the single-party project is definitively dead - he concluded - We will go ahead with two parties and, if we recompose the climate, we will join forces where possible".

«The stop – reads a note released in the evening by Azione – derives from the choice of Italia Viva not to vote on a document yesterday which they had declared to have already been read and shared . Behind all this there is only one fact: Renzi, who has returned to the helm of Italia Viva for a few months, has no intention of liquidating it in a new party. Legitimate choice but in contrast with the promises made to the voters. After months of back and forth we simply took note of it. In a climate deliberately poisoned by personal insults from Renzi and almost all the exponents of Italia Viva to Carlo Calenda ».

For Italia Viva, on the other hand, it's all Calenda's fault: «Interrupting the path towards the single party is a unilateral choice by Carlo Calenda – is the reply – We think it is a sensational own goal but we respect Action's decisions. The arguments used appear alibis. Italia Viva is ready to dissolve, like Action, on October 30, after a free and democratic congress. On resources, Italia Viva has so far transferred almost one and a half million euros to Carlo Calenda's advertising team and is ready to contribute half of the expenses necessary for the congressional phase and to transfer resources from the moment of the birth of the single party. The construction of an alternative proposal to populists and sovereignists is now more difficult but more urgent . In the coming months we will respect the friends of Action by seeking any form of collaboration without responding to the controversies of some of their managers".

(Unioneonline/D)