Schifani resigns as leader of the popular senators Area – The Republic

ROME – Renato Schifani has resigned from the post of chairman of the Popular Area group that adhered senators UDC and New center-right. The former Senate president announced his decision at a press conference in the Senate in which he explained that he had sent a letter to the group colleagues to announce his abandonment of office. “I have to respect my conscience – said Schifani – A considered decision, painful and convinced that I would not lead the group in a perspective that I do not do my own. My resignation does not obey a sharing of Ncd” path. For some time now Schifani and other senators, Joseph Esposito, Roberto Formigoni, Antonio Azzollini, pushing for a return of the center-Ncd to bargain a new covenant of the Nazarene.

An option away from the leader Angelino Alfano thinks instead to Matteo Renzi and stable alliance with the Democratic Party. Although the former presdiente the Senate assicuraro which will remain in Ncd and vote in conformity to the group not patting return assumptions in the arms of Berlusconi. But the leader who resigned also explained: “On Wednesday there was a meeting of the group with Alfano where it is proposed to establish a new political union of Ncd with those close to Casini and Tosi, without UDC. An operation the building and not of the territory, with a lack of positioning that for me had to be the center-right. I already considered depleted our perspective with the vote on the reforms, now I do not share this view “. In the decision Schifani also weighs judgment on constitutional reforms and the voting position on the Constitutional referensdum. On the issue Schifani said he considers closed “the path of the government of Ncd support the parliamentary vote on the reforms, which I voted for party discipline.”

Words that make sense a distancing from the reform woods and a possible no to the referendum autunnale.Una taken away that was already decided instead UDC. Ii secretary Lorenzo Cesa, in sharp contrast with Casinischierato yes, he announced that “the UDC is in the majority and continue to do so responsibly. We were in the Monti government, in what Letta and Renzi government to the country’s situation is difficult. We will continue to lend a hand to this government, but we will say no to a botched reform that does not give protection to our country. ” A no also motivated by the fact that “this reform could come out a Erdogan who uses the tools we have put in place to do that is now doing Erdogan in Turkey.” To listen to him in the front row Ciriaco De Mita, contrary to Renzi-Woods project because “the reforms were made as a measure to one, while the rules must apply to everyone.”

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