The Presiding Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has rejected the request to form a new parliamentary group that could have served as the basis for a unified centrist list (starting with Più Europa and Ernesto Maria Ruffini’s Più Uno). Magi and Tabacci: “This breaks with parliamentary practice for political reasons.” Renzi is gloating. The showdown between Iv and Onorato and Bonelli’s prediction: “In the end, there will be two centrist parties.”

From tomorrow, the Progetto Civico Italia general assembly will take place at the EUR. The Democratic Party secretariat will not be attending due to scheduling conflicts; +Europa has not been invited. In attendance will be AVS, the chairmen De Pascale, Proietti and Giani, Minister Schillaci and Giovanni Malagò

Luigi Nave is moving to the Mixed Group in the Senate and, in the coming days, will form a faction under the name ‘Avanti Psi e Progetto civico Italia’. In this way, the broad coalition is helping civic candidates and socialists to reduce the number of signatures required to stand for election: this brings the figure down to 1,500 instead of 6,000 per constituency.

Calenda, Renzi, Marattin, Tajani, Occhiuto, Magi and Onorato. The centre is not a political space. It is a dispute amongst flat-owners. Everyone wants to live in the same block, provided that they are the property manager, the neighbour upstairs is evicted and the caretaker has no ties to Giuseppe Conte.

The Rome city councillor has struck a deal with Controcorrente, the movement led by Ismaele La Vardera, which is hugely popular on the island. The former ‘Iena’ presenter will bring his votes to Onorato and, in return, hopes for the support of the M5S and that section of the PD which backs the Roman councillor in an anti-Renzi bid for the Sicilian regional elections. The leader of IV has seen through the manoeuvre and is fielding the former MEP and doctor from Lampedusa, who spent years in Brussels alongside Schlein

Progetto Civico Italia will meet in Rome on 24, 25 and 26 October to present its electoral platform. “We are ready to collect signatures; we are not concerned with parliamentary representation. Stop linking us to Conte – we are different. Renzi? He’s part of the broad coalition, but we are something new.”

To get round the ‘anti-faction’ rule, Rome’s Councillor for Sport is seeking representation in Parliament. He has asked the broad coalition for three MPs, but that is not enough: a party symbol must be submitted by 2022. And the leader of Centro Democratico, who previously supported Bonino and Di Maio, is backing out this time

Sources close – indeed, very close – to the Conte-Onorato axis speak of a recent flirtation with Elly. She is said to have contacted the Roman councillor to ask him to consolidate the centre, with a single list, not least with a view to the primaries.

The founder of Progetto Civico has had a change of heart: two days ago, at the rally organised outside the Senate, he had said he was opposed to this idea: “” Today, however, it is he who is asking the parties across the political spectrum to provide him with MPs to form a parliamentary group. The aim: to collect fewer signatures in order to stand in the elections