The Referendum, Renzi: “Piazza of the People, not of populism” – The Republic

the ROME – "This is the Piazza del Popolo, not subject to considerable debate”. So begins Matteo Renzi aIla event has been for the Yes in the Referendum. “Our destiny is to change Italy, not to argue. Our destiny is to change destiny of our children, grandchildren." Then there was the attack without mentioning it, the M5s that invokes in its slogn “Honesty”.

“Honesty is our moto. But if you talk of honesty and not fixing the problems of your Country you are not credible. Not just honesty, it is the pre-condition, without them can not go." Then, referring to the allusion of the mayor of the Capital on the frigodate, the premier joked with the protesters: “I recommend no one allow to leave refrigerators in the square, i chose not to accept them”. “Dear Europe back to yourself. And if you do not return we will return we to the house because we do not accept the word selfishness”.

“The wreck of the sunken ship by the smugglers the mettereno in front of Brussels in front of the headquarters of the Eu. Europe can not afford 4 thousand deaths per year, three times as much for the dead of the Isis”. “Not as the green shirts in Tanzania have led to the money of the public funding, and then they say to help them at their home, the leaguers”.

Matthew that deprive me of sleep, and Matteo Messina denaro, Matteo Salvini. We will make the G8 summit in Taormina and not in Florence (I apologize to firentini) to demonstrate that Sicily is not the mafia as they say abroad. And, my fellow citizens have said, ‘we are with you, we are with Italy’”.

“Trump – says Renzi – is likely to become president of the Usa, the democratic world must find around the fundamental values of its identity card. If the Usa also are at risk of having a populism of the government, something he will want to say. Obama has demonstrated that in 8 years you can write the story. But the left is in trouble in Europe, Europe seems to have lost the soul, and betrayed the ideals of Ventotene. I ask this square the strength to do battle is not demagogic politics against the euro and Europe, but to return the soul to the european continent, which turns the head in front of the immigration”.

The front of the ” Yes ” in the Referendum on constitutional Reform is dropped in the square with the premier Matteo Renzi and the presence of “for the respect of the people, the pd, and to reduce the distance”, Gianni Cuperlo, of the minority dem. The front of the No contromanifesta in Sicily with the M5s and Genoa with FdI. The premier Renzi has arrived at the Piazza del Popolo.

‘The Square is of the People,’ the title of the event in Rome. Secretary dem, and the president of the Council in the morning, and has posted some photos of him in the square in the night: “Tonight the inspection: the whole is ready to embrace us #sivainpiazza. Have a good trip to the people dem in the path to Rome,” was his tweet. In Rome also the Italian minister for reform Maria Elena Woods. From all over Italy arrived protesters in the coach.

Rome, Piazza del Popolo. Flags pd waving in the Piazza of the People to the manifestation of Pd. Under the stairs of the Pincio the stage with the transparent roof, the symbols of Pd on a yellow background and the slogan ‘the square is of the people,’ and ‘yes to an Italy that is more strong yes to a fairer Europe’. White balloons, red, and green in the sky. The traditional songs of the mondine and ‘Bella ciao’ warm up the atmosphere before the intervention of Renzi. In front of the stage, the young democrats, with their orange flags. Between them an elderly lady with paper roses tricolori and the sign: “Renzi, whatever the result you do not have to resign”.

Minority dem: Cuperlo in piazza. “A piece of the left present in the square to reduce the distances and to shorten the differences.” So Gianni Cuperlo has motivated his participation. “We are for respect of the people of pd,” he explained. In relation to the political act asked the Pd and to the secretary Renzi on the electoral law, as a condition of the minority to support the Yes vote, Cuperlo he added: “If this act should not be there, we will be forced to not support this reform.” the Pier Luigi Bersani will be ‘on the square’ for the No Monday, November 7, at Syracuse on the occasion of the exhibition ‘South and work. Reforms and democracy’. Absence discounted Massimo D’alema: “outside”, is to know his entourage. On the presence-absence of the minority, Lorenzo Guerini, deputy secretary of the Pd, short cuts: “ ;The Pd called, they should be there.”

up. The opposite of No falls in the piazza in Sicily with the Movement 5 stars who sent you there, Luigi Di Maio, vice president of the Chamber, to support the reasons for the grillini are to the contrary. And to Genoa by the Brothers of Italy (an event organized by the Committee “No, thanks”) and Ignazio La Russa.

The hundred squares against. Thirty young student activists of the committees of the No have manifested in Rome at the Colosseum dressed as ancient romans with the banner “the power in the hands of a few: an old idea of 2000 years”, in the context of the ‘one Hundred squares of No’ organized in different Italian cities, in contrast to the demonstration in the Piazza del Popolo.