Pd, Read leaders in Veneto and Lombardy. Armored seats for Cottarelli and Andrea Crisanti, excluding Cirinnà

With 3 votes against and 5 abstentions, the National Direction of the Democratic Party, gathered at the Nazarene, approved the lists for the candidates in view of the next political elections on 25 September.

The meeting, called and postponed several times during the day, ended just before 1am. There was no lack of tensions and the great excluded.

The representatives of the reformist grassroots current, about twenty, did not participate in the vote. Three votes against, five abstentions.

Enrico Letta will be the candidate as head of the Chamber in Lombardy and Veneto, while Carlo Cottarelli will be head of the Senate in Milan. A surprise candidate in Europe is the professor and microbiologist Andrea Crisanti .

Among the candidates in the running there will also be 4 young people under 35 indicated as capilista : Rachele Scarpa, Cristina Cerroni, Raffaele La Regina, Marco Sarracino.

In fact, excluding the constitutionalist Stefano Ceccanti and the "godmother" of the LGBT movement Monica Cirinnà : the first candidate for the proportional in a position that makes election almost impossible, the second in a losing college, both have made it known that they will give up.

“I will communicate my non-acceptance of the candidacy - explained Cirinnà - They proposed me a losing constituency in two polls, they are territories unsuitable for my themes and with a strong right-wing roots. Obviously, for the Democratic Party you can go to Parliament without me , it is a legitimate choice. I remain in the party, I am a leftist woman but luckily I have other jobs ”.

Among the big excluded also Luca Lotti , who together with Lorenzo Guerini leads the current reformist base that did not participate in the vote.

“I would have liked to reapply all the outgoing parliamentarians. But it is impossible for the reform of the parliamentary cut but also for the need for renewal ”, is a passage from the intervention of the dem secretary. " I could impose my own people but I didn't do it because the Party is a community ," he added, explaining that he had personally asked for "sacrifices" from some. "It weighed on me a lot," Letta said again, then the attack on Renzi. “Four years ago the method of those who made the lists was: I do everything myself. I tried to create a balance, respect for the territories is among the founding criteria of the choices ".

(Unioneonline / L)