The former Defence Minister and architect of the Ulivo coalition told Il Foglio: “The time has come for Schlein and Conte to talk to each other, looking each other in the eye”, starting with foreign policy and the leadership of the coalition. To the Democrats: “Enough of these shenanigans. The PD’s faction leaders seem to want to weaken the party leader”

The Olive Tree coalition’s ideologue speaks out and presses the centre-left: “It is lagging far behind on foreign policy. Schlein and Conte? Dual leaderships are short-lived and almost always end in disaster”