“I have always believed that politics should be about ideas, consensus and the citizens’ vote, never about intimidation. But the left must distance itself from those who stir up hatred,” says the Prime Minister

“Only some imbecile or useful idiot could think that the threats are our doing. We will assess any necessary action with our lawyers,” say national spokespeople Giuliano Granato and Marta Collot. The PD has expressed its solidarity with the MEP: “No intimidation will make us back down”

Using rather undiplomatic methods, the Foreign Secretary has made a forceful entry into the Spanish debate: he has branded the regularisation of migrants as "demagogic" and the Catalan amnesty as "unfair" 

Today, Bignami is due to give evidence before the Committee of Inquiry; in a few days’ time, it will be the former prime minister’s turn: “Conte’s approach is like something out of a Pirandello play”. Meloni’s supporters are insisting on the reinstatement of the ‘No Vax’ doctors, and Gasperini, the ideologue of the National Front, says: “It’s time to let them back in. We are opposed to the health dictatorship, as seen under Conte and Draghi”.

The general is grabbing the headlines with AI and the national rubbish crisis – a way to regain the limelight and halt Salvini’s march towards the Ministry of the Interior. Bonelli: “In the end, Meloni will keep him in the coalition”

The Democratic Party’s idea is to find an interim prime ministerial candidate to lead the party into the elections. But if the coalition needs a leader who does not set the political agenda in order to avoid choosing a leader who does set the political agenda, perhaps the problem lies not with the selection method but with the alliance itself

It’s not just about electoral law: issues relating to the justice system (including self-defence) could highlight divisions within Forza Italia. And the Prime Minister fears that the parliamentary group might act as it did on the issue of preferential votes

The president of Lombardy has complained about the Minister for Enterprise (“no money for the ZES”). This is just the latest in a series of tensions between the head of the Mimit and the Carroccio

In chats between MPs and leaders of the Democratic Party, support was being voiced for Sánchez’s Spain against Milei’s Argentina. Meanwhile, Franco Gabrielli’s name is once again being mentioned as a possible candidate for Prime Minister for the progressive alliance

“Fourteen years and nine months is the sentence for premeditated murder, not for a situation as complicated as his. Advice on life in prison? He should keep as active as possible. I’ll soon be meeting Professor Gasperini to discuss justice on the ‘Futuro Nazionale’ programme,” says the former mayor of Rome