A spokesperson for former Democratic
Party (PD) secretary Enrico Letta warned against passing the
buck after the centre-left suffered heavy losses in mayoral
run-offs on Monday.
"No playing the blame game, please," wrote Monica Nardi on
Twitter.
"Enrico Letta triumphed in local elections for two years in a
row", in 2021 and 2022, "before losing badly in the general
election" in 2022, she continued.
But he didn't look for alibis and he never took a shot at anyone
in the PD," Nardi said.
The comment came after members of the party said in interviews
on Tuesday that the mayoral candidates and electoral lists had
been decided by the former party management, before Elly Schlein
took over from Letta as secretary in March.
On Monday Elly Schlein said the centre left's run-off victory in
only one of seven provincial capitals and its poor showing in
separate first-round elections in Sicily had been a a "clear"
defeat and showed that the headwinds that had blown the right to
victory in last September's general election were still strong.
"It is evident that you can't win on your own," she added,
stressing the need to build alliances on the centre left with
the populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) led by ex premier Giuseppe
Conte or the so-called Third Pole, which at the moment are
mutually exclusive and with the latter saying Schlein is too far
to the left.
On Tuesday Conte told reporters at the Lower House that the M5S
was "willing to dialogue with the PD" on "issues and projects",
"measuring ourselves on concrete responses to the needs of local
and national communities".
However, this should not compromise or water down the party's
battles, he added.
"I am convinced that Meloni is not to be fought with broad
alliances but with a different idea of the country," Conte said.
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