“President Napolitano stood in the way, preventing the whole truth from coming to light. I had hundreds of Mafia members arrested. Matteo Renzi put them forward as candidates.” The video response from the former public prosecutor (now part of the broad coalition with Onorato and La Vardera’s Civic Project) following the former prime minister’s remarks at the Festa del Foglio

At the time, the reformist left – comprising the PD, SEL and PSI, of which I was the secretary – avoided forming an alliance with the party led by the former magistrate. Who has changed their mind today? Riccardo Nencini, former secretary of the PSI, writes to us.

“It would be better to avoid the primaries. I would prefer that the electorate not be faced with the choice between Conte and Schlein, which risks being divisive,” says the former public prosecutor who handled the state-Mafia negotiations