• Renzi leaves the Pd: "With me about thirty parliamentarians, there is no vision of the future"
  • Renzi's farewell, who goes and who stays in the Pd. The node of the parliamentary group in the Senate
  • Zingaretti: "Error dividing". Franceschini: "It's a big problem"
  • Rooms, as parliamentary groups are constituted
  • Renzi calls Conte: I leave the Democratic Party, but I will continue to support the government
  • Pd, Renzi ready to "consensual" farewell. Zingaretti media, appeal of Franceschini
  • Zingaretti: Pd united, not credible government for maneuver Renzi opens to institutional government
  • Pd, Renzi at Le Monde: it is necessary to prevent a vote by Salvini

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17 September 2019 "The name of our new challenge, which we are about to launch, will be 'Italia Viva'": said Matteo Renzi, during the recording of the Porta a Porta preview.

The choice that shakes Italian politics
Renzi's farewell to the Democratic Party, officially announced today, is stirring the Italian political scene. Secretary Dem Zingaretti states that "it is a mistake, but we look to the future of the Italians". And for Delrio "the divisions have never led to the strengthening of the center-left". Prime Minister Conte expresses "perplexity" for the "singular choice of the times". "No surprise" for Di Maio, while Grillo comments: "The Mattei (Salvini and Renzi ed.) Have both passed into the urge, the country is unstable and full of rancor, it is not the time to follow up on narcissism .The risk is Pontida capital ". Salvini attacks: "Renzi? What a pity, what is not done to save the armchair ...". Toti, on the other hand, hopes "that Renzi's choice brings clarity and that every hypothesis of return to proportional is abandoned".

The official choice
The former secretary has formalized his exit from the Democratic Party in an interview with the Republic in which he explained that he wants to fight Salvini and that he will be followed by around thirty parliamentarians with whom he will form autonomous groups this week. "What drives me to leave is the lack of a vision on the future", said the former prime minister who defined the current Pd "a set of currents", "the parliamentarians who will follow me will be about thirty, more or less "I'm not saying there is a closed number, but almost".

Independent groups during the week
"The autonomous groups will be born already this week. And they will be good for everyone: Zingaretti will no longer have the excuse of saying that he does not control the Pd groups because they will be 'deranged'," the former secretary said, "and for the government will probably expand the basis of parliamentary consensus, I also told Conte. So the operation is good for everyone, as observed by Goffredo Bettini, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. "wide and will be in the country, not only in the buildings".

I want to fight against Salvini
"I want to spend the next few months fighting Salvini," Renzi said, ensuring that the front against the Northern League leader could expand with his initiative. "We made a tactical masterpiece by putting Salvini in the minority with the tools of parliamentary democracy," he said, "but the evil populism he expresses is not beaten and must be defeated in society. And I believe that the liturgies of a scientifically organized Democratic Party and engaged in a laborious and self-referential search for unity as the supreme good no longer work ".

Giachetti and "the #senzadime split"
Even in the field, the choice is discussed. The #Senzadime, a movement that was formed around the current dem captained by Roberto Giachetti and Anna Ascani, questioned the split triggered by Matteo Renzi. So much so as to organize an assembly open in Milan with an eloquent title: "Pd: the future passes from here, the split without me".

"We voted for Renzi but we don't believe in jerks"
"We are people who in recent years have also voted for Matteo Renzi as secretary of the Democratic Party. Because we really believed in an Italy that changed direction," reads the Facebook page. "But we do not believe in tears or divisions, in hatreds or in personal vendettas," they add.

Zingaretti: "Error, but we think of Italians"
"Sorry. A mistake to divide the Democratic Party, especially at a time when its strength is indispensable for the quality of our democracy". So in a post on Facebook the secretary of the Pd Nicola Zingaretti comments on Matteo Renzi's decision to leave the party.

"Now let's think about the future of the Italians, work, environment, businesses, schools, investments. A new agenda and the need to rebuild hope with good governance and a new Democratic Party", concludes Zingaretti.

We are sorry. An error. But now let's think about the future of Italians, work, environment, businesses, schools, investments. A new agenda and the need to rebuild hope with good governance and a new PD

- Nicola Zingaretti (@nzingaretti) 17 September 2019


Franceschini: "Renzi? Today is a big problem"
Matteo Renzi "Today it is a big problem". The Minister for Cultural Heritage and head of the PD delegation, Dario Franceschini thus replies to his German counterpart Michelle Muntefering who approached him before the start of a convention at the Triennale asking "What is Renzi doing now?". The private dialogue was intercepted by journalists, to whom the minister had previously said he did not want to talk about anything else today, if not culture, avoiding questions about the split in the Democratic Party.

Franceschini, urged by the German minister, explained that the split with Matteo Renzi from the Democratic Party could create problems. "They decided to leave the party for no reason," he said, admitting that "it is difficult to understand the reasons". Renzi "continues to support the government but - reiterates Franceschini - it could be a problem".

Calenda: "a bit unusual. I warned Zingaretti and Gentiloni"
"I welcome him with confusion. He made a different choice from mine, he said he agreed to the alliance between the Democratic Party and the Five Stars, indeed he pushed the Democratic Party on that line. Now it makes another turn and leaves the Democratic Party "I don't agree with it, I find it a bit unusual". This is what Carlo Calenda said on Rai Radio2's microphones during the "I Lunatici" format regarding Matteo Renzi's farewell to the Democratic Party.

"I had warned Zingaretti and Gentiloni in all possible ways. It was very clear that it would happen. Zingaretti and Gentiloni hoped and believed that this could be avoided. Evidently it didn't go well - he adds -. The PD can have a future only if it discovers that "You can't join forces with the Five Star Movement just to say no to Salvini. It's not that raising Salvini from the Ministry of the Interior solves the problems. To solve the problems we need the programs. This Government doesn't have them in my opinion. Get back in the Pd. No. Coherence in politics is an important fact. I can't fail. I think the Five Stars have smashed the cities that govern and destroyed a ministry in which I spit blood for five years. I can't be with them. "

Rosato: "Creating a political house where you can stay a little in peace"
"The numbers are not our trouble. We will have the numbers to make the group in the House and in the Senate we will do what is consistent with the regulation of Palazzo Madama. I wish the PD to make its way and its path", we we want "to create a political house in which we can stay a little in serenity". Ettore Rosato, vice president of the Chamber says so.

Ricci: "A mistake, I don't believe in personal parties"
"The splitting of Renzi is a huge mistake. I do not believe in personal parties and the divisions always lead badly. The popular mayors aggregate, do not divide. This is why I believe we will all remain in the Democratic Party, which, a fortiori, we want to be reformist and majority (not the PDS) ". Matteo Ricci, mayor of Pesaro, wrote it on twitter and on facebook, relaunching the hashtag "I'm in the Democratic Party".

#iostonelPD a huge mistake the #renzi split. I don't believe in personal parties and divisions always hurt. Popular mayors aggregate, do not divide. For this I believe we will all remain in the PD which, a fortiori, we want reformist and majority (not the PDS) pic.twitter.com/IzuqSEljlO

- Matteo Ricci (@matteoricci) 17 September 2019


Bellanova: "I'm with Renzi"
Not only criticism for Renzi. "I have always said in these days that at the right moment I would have said where I stand with the frankness that characterizes me. I am with Matteo Renzi". Thus the Minister of Agriculture, Teresa Bellanova, according to which that of the former Prime Minister, "is an ambitious political project. Look to the future of the country and of Europe, in an attempt to interpret and catalyze what in Italian society was born and it moves and no longer finds competent, fascinating and credible interlocutors among the political forces ". For this reason, Bellanova writes on his Facebook profile, "the word splitting is out of place and dangerous to interpret what is happening. It is not a split but a sincere acknowledgment of a difficulty of coexistence between different souls that has been made in these years increasingly evident ".

Bonetti: "I have replied yes to Renzi. His path is mine"
The Minister of Family, Elena Bonetti, of the same opinion, writes on Fb: "That traced by Matteo Renzi is a road of freedom and courage, which belongs fully to me and to my personal history". And he adds: "I started my journey in politics as a choice of service, ready to get involved and contribute, as far as I could, to tracing good paths. I have spoken many times of the need for all of us to give life to a politics capable of becoming generative in the country, a policy that was good, beautiful, true. This calls for responsibility and courage. This is why I answered yes to the project that Matteo offers the country ".

Who goes and who stays. The node of the group in the Senate