Departed yesterday from Tiburtina Station on board his "destination Italy" train Renzi speaks of Bankitalia.
Speaking of the banking system and the events that have characterized his government, Matteo Renzi calls for a "new phase" and reiterates that "everything has happened to the banks", he argues that "there has been ineffective supervision". Speaking with his people, he reiterates what the point is: if they think - this is the thesis - that they are campaigning for Banca Etruria, they are very wrong, I am not a defender of the banks or of the Bank of Italy's work. The dem secretary's trip around Italy is to take notes, not to hold speeches. But the climate is that of the eve of the elections.
At each stage (today in the Marche, tomorrow in Abruzzo) he is accompanied by dem parliamentarians, and he repeats to everyone that it is necessary to understand that the political vote is now upon us and will also be played on the theme of banking institutions: I - says the former president of the Council with the loyalists - they are in tune with the country, criticizing the supervision of the Bank of Italy is not treacherous. “These controversies - remarks a Renzian exponent - can create fibrillations in the system but certainly not in citizens. It is not a question of responsibility or not, but of saying things out in the open ”. It is no coincidence that yesterday, confiding in his family, Renzi underlined the weight of the attacks received on Banca Etruria. Well, the dem secretary believes that his government has no fault, he simply had to remedy the problems remedied by others, including Bank of Italy. “We aim straight,” is the line. And it matters little if Veltroni considered the dem motion "unjustifiable". There is irritation on the part of the Renzians: we made him open the tenth anniversary of the Democratic Party, he preaches to us on the values of the community and then - this is the reasoning - he behaves in this way. The leader of the dem in the House Rosato softens the tone but the loyal ones of the dem secretary consider the thrust of Veltroni as an unmotivated attack on the leadership.
The Bank of Italy issue risks being an open wound within the Democrats. Orlando's coordination asked for a group assembly, parliamentary sources from the area do not exclude the presentation of a document for a course correction and to point out that there is no interference in the affair. "It is not up to us to appoint the future governor," says Renzi, but the Democratic Party cannot be asked to take charge of a possible reconfirmation of Visco. As far as Bank of Italy is concerned - Renzian parliamentary sources underline - sometimes there is a turnover under normal conditions, but this is an extraordinary consideration. The Nazarene party is in fibrillation. “I don't have to deal with too many things that happen every day and are deplorable”, is also the criticism of Napolitano. Embarrassment also on the part of the Franceschini area, other ministers such as Calenda and various "big" demos such as Zanda who met Prime Minister Gentiloni in the afternoon on the sidelines of communications on the eve of the European Council. But Renzi defends the right, when the issue is at the center of the parliamentary debate, to be able to give an opinion on the banking crisis. The premise is that "there is no clash between the Democratic Party and the government" but "if someone wants to tell you that nothing has happened in the banking sector in recent years, we do not agree". "We have suffered insults and accusations to the Government for having saved the banks", remembers the former prime minister, "whoever made the mistake pay, if there are things to change, change them". And again: “The problem is not the name of the Governor. Renzi reiterates that the Democratic Party is not against Visco and that the reality is that in Italy something very very big has happened in the banking system and that it is imaginative to speak of the parliamentary motion as a subversive move.
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