In the Chamber of Deputies, the former prime minister takes centre stage. He speaks on the NEC and then on Delmastro’s chat messages. Schlein follows suit: on the day of the joint resolution, she steps aside. And once again, the reformists are left behind 

Conte brings Draghi and Ukraine into the fray as he seeks to form his third government as Prime Minister. Drama within the PD: “Will the government’s resolution on the NEC include a reference to SAFE?”

“By shifting the focus from the form to the content, the veil of hypocrisy is torn away. The leader of the Five Star Movement has made a knight’s move,” says the TV presenter. “From now on, the broad coalition will no longer be what it was before”

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

On both sides, the pitfalls of internal competition and the quest for consensus risk transforming a normalised, stable and rather shrewd – though not indecent – country into one that is uglier, more resentful and less civilised. The difficult coming-of-age test of the elections