At the Green Alliance and Left party rally, ‘the alternative’ gathers, though it remains without a programme or a leader. From the crowd, people shout: ‘Get a move on!’, in thick Roman dialect. Surprise: the Greens like Silvia Salis

The leader of Italia Viva, speaking at the Ambrosetti Forum, discusses the broad coalition: “We are not part of it; we are part of the centre-left.” On next year’s elections: “It makes sense to hold the election next May. Could Giorgia Meloni stand alongside Vannacci? In my view, no – she’d lose face.”

A journey through the Obama Presidential Centre in Chicago, caught between nostalgia for the America of Barack and Michelle and the desire for a left that finds itself looking to the past to envisage a response to the Trump era. Six floors of memory, politics and resistance, with the present constantly bursting in from outside

Roberto Speranza provokes: “Primaries would be an own goal. Let’s put an elderly partisan or a newly-of-age young person forward as the prime ministerial candidate.” But this is merely the latest in a long series of outbursts on the subject. September is here and the left have still not decided who to vote for, how to vote and, above all, whether to vote at all

The former prime minister comments on the rift that has emerged within the PD between reformists and pacifists over defence spending: “They need to make a decision on foreign policy. For now, they’re just in a mess.” The father of the Olive Tree coalition seems to have a clearer vision than the coalition itself

The leader of the Five Star Movement has reiterated his statements regarding Ukraine and the primaries: “Over the last few days, I have said and repeated the same things that the M5S and I have been saying for four years.” A broad coalition has agreed on a single resolution ahead of Giorgetti’s statement tomorrow on defence and energy

At the Festa dell’Unità in Villalunga, Reggio Emilia, the secretary of the PD kept the audience on tenterhooks as they awaited a response to the Five Star Movement leader’s statements on Ukraine. But nothing: the heatwave, the referendum, free work placements, the Constitution. She would speak about Conte twenty-four hours later, but without mentioning Putin

The former Defence Minister, leader of the Democratic Party’s reformists: “We cannot wait for the primaries; with the former Prime Minister, we need to decide the line now. If he splits the broad coalition, he will bear the responsibility. Ukraine is being supported by the supply of weapons. The PD will support Kyiv”

The secretary of the PD responds to the leader of the M5S, who yesterday explained that he wished to resolve certain crucial issues in the broad coalition’s programme – including military support for Kyiv – following the coalition primaries. Bonelli and Fratoianni: “We’re not living under a presidential system, after all!” But silence falls on the issue of support for Ukraine