Italia Viva, Prodi: name from yogurt, personalities do not work

2019-09-20T08:11:29.199Z

The name Italia viva, from the new line-up of Matteo Renzi "is a beautiful name. A friend of mine proposed it for a yogurt perhaps because of the live cultures. The problem is that the yogurt has a tight deadline and this for a party can be a problem". This was said by former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, in an interview with Repubblica, explaining how "care must be taken that personal parties work the first time. Repeating them creates problems. This applies to everyone, for Renzi and perhaps also for Salvini". "Personalism - explains the former president of the EU Commission - makes its way into all parties and is a worldwide trend. Think of Trump and Bolsonaro. The first example, in some ways, was Berlusconi. Today, however, the personalities are still more exasperated to risk the ridiculous ". Returning to Renzi, Prodi is not surprised by his exit from the Democratic Party: "It was absolutely predictable. But equally inexplicable in time. We cannot work to build a government and immediately put a mortgage on the same government." "However, from the point of view of the stability of the government, Renzi's choice is less important than the one attributed to it. Now its eventual detachment from the government would be obvious and therefore it would pay more than before," concludes the former premier.