Calenda steps away from the center-left united for the Marche. And relaunches: "Let's abolish the Regions"

Goodbye to the super wide field in the Marche, Calenda withdraws. Not that it was ever a foregone conclusion, but now it's official: "Today the Azione Board of Directors will meet and I will propose that we will not be present in the Marche with our symbol", announces the leader of Azione Carlo Calenda from the studio of L'Aria che Tira, on La7 . "In the Marche no candidate is good for Azione. I - explains Calenda - am for the abolition of the Regions, because regionalism, with its centers of power, has destroyed Italy" he adds.

A theme, that of regionalism, that Calenda also brings up by observing that in Veneto "Zaia is not Salvini's League but closer to the DC of the 'white Veneto' and is not a pro-Putinist but in my opinion in the end I believe - he observes again regarding the hypotheses of a break between the current Governor of Veneto and the League, and the possibility of dialogue with Azione - that nothing will happen precisely because the Regions are centers of power and everyone organizes themselves to collect votes".

The leader of Azione, who in recent days had met in Budapest with the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein at the Pride, continues on a course not aligned with the center-left. Here in there out. Affinity on certain battles, rupture on others: "Ricci is against the waste-to-energy plant, Acquaroli is second to last on the governors' approval list.." he says. Matteo Ricci, the Democratic MEP who is running for governor for the center-left in the Marche, has put together a broad coalition to beat the outgoing Acquaroli but will have to do without Calenda. He is also very perplexed about the prospects of the center-left at a national level: "But what does 'being together without being together' mean? But can we go and tell a voter a piece of crap like this and then think that they will vote for us? We have a drama at home, the war at the gates of Europe and we are at Bettini's 'tent'... He talks about it repeatedly to say, in essence, 'let's get together and if we don't govern who cares' but 36 percent of Italians believe that democracy has failed and that we need a dictatorship", warns the leader of Azione referring to a recent survey among thirty-year-old Italians. "I'm fed up with the moralistic tirades of a rabble that - he adds - have nothing in common" he concludes.