[GTranslate]ROME – Seven years ago, Matteo Renzi threw him out and his “Enrico, stay calm”, addressed to the premier who was ‘scrapped’ and replaced by the current leader of Italia Viva, remained famous. Today, Enrico Letta (in the pic, with Matteo Renzi in 2014) takes revenge: with 860 yes, 2 no and 4 abstentions, he is new secretary of the Democratic Party.

“Thanks to Nicola Zingaretti, with whom there is friendship and harmony, thanks to Nicola for looking for me. We will work together in the Democratic Party. We will carry on your work “tweeted Letta immediately after the party assembly held today at the Nazarene.

It was Zingaretti himself who opened the crisis in the Democratic Party, with his resignation-shock: “I am ashamed that in the Democratic Party, the party of which I am secretary, we are only talking about seats and primaries when the third wave of Covid is exploding in Italy. There is the problem of work, investments and the need to rebuild hope, especially for the new generations. I hope that now the Democratic Party will go back to talking about the country’s problems and to commit to solving them”, he said. And he tried to persuade Letta to take the leadership of the party. The former premier accepted and thus returned to the fold after seven years of teaching in Paris.

In his speech to the assembly of the Democratic Party, Letta, 54 years-old, from Pisa (Tuscany), addressed a thought to “the half million Italians who lost their jobs” during the Coronavirus pandemic, underlined the importance of restoring dignity to female representation in the party and announced the intention to push Mario Draghi’s government to give life to the Ius Soli legislation and to lower the voting age to 16. “We need to broaden the weight range of young people in our society,” he said.

On the political opponents (from many, transversely, he collected the wishes of good work) there was a thrust to Matteo Salvini’s Lega: “The government of Mario Draghi is our government. It is Lega that must explain why it supports him, not us”