The favorite phrase dates back to the time of Boy Scoutwhile he was driving happy in Rignano on the Arno. Is of the poet Robert Frost: «Two roads I found in the woods and I chose the less beaten. And that’s why I’m different ». Impossible to disagree. Matteo Renzi is unique. Nobody like him manages to combine colossal ambition and fragorous flashes.
The former premier imagined himself as Professor Keatingplayed by the late Robin Williams, who in theFleeting moment he conquered the students by reading that metaphorical verse. Except that the voters carefully avoided bringing the ambitious former premier into triumph.
The road taken on September 16, 2019, when he decided to found Italy Vivahas become a blind and dark alley: prefix percentages, substantial debts, continuous defections.
The idea of a reformist house
Six years later, the tenacious Matteo then puts himself back on the way. Welcomes the suggestion ofGiallorossi Akela, Goffredo Bettini. Do you want a reformist tent? Matteo, the most famous ex -tingle in Italy, first equips with stakes and sleeping bags. Then, he reflects on the millionaire incomes that has guaranteed himself to the sound of controversial advice: not very Spartan, in fact.
Finally, he decides to impract with bricks and levels. Is Italy Viva died? No more Berlusconi apes. The austere is born Reformist house. The next regional promises he promises. It presents itself in Calabria, Campania and Tuscany. And will be consecrated on the occasion of the imminent Leopoldain early October.
Objective: renovate a reputation
Renzi’s intent is hyperuranic: make a reputation. From destroyer to manufacturer. But also the program of the new theme song seems ambitious: to attract the moderate, frightened by the ultra progressism of Elly Schlein and from the argument of Giuseppe Conte.
It is urgent to overcome forty percent and beat the center -right. The idea is certainly not revolutionary. Indeed, it resembles a desperate move. The party cows. And the threshold of the electoral law remains fixed to an now unreachable three percent.
In order to remain in Parliament, Matteo had already had to be alleged with the equally selfish in the 2022 elections Carlo Calendaleader of action. Predictably, it ended up in unrepeatable insults.
Budgets, accounts and donors
In Renzi, however, they do not lack ideas and timing. Retains the desperate enterprise, despite the past bodies. When it comes to voting, they liquidate it like a petulant Sunday morning preacher, full of brochures and booklets.
It was September 2019, therefore. After a long season at Palazzo Chigi, the former secretary of the Democratic Party decides to found Italy Viva. “We will have hundreds of mayors, about fifty regional councilors, thousands of administrators and above all a lot of committees and simple members,” he promises. “We will not be a five percent party,” swears.
“Maybe” today the 13 remaining parliamentarians would answer today: a third of those who, six years ago, followed him hopefully.
Italy Viva also loses the only enviable record conquered over time: to take incette of fundingbetween entrepreneurs and supporters. In 2022 he had collected almost 2.3 million euros. In 2024, the year of the European elections, he instead stopped a 908 thousand euros.
The budget closes with a considerable red: 1.4 million. Among the expenses, the substantial cost of “advertising and propaganda” stands out: almost 1.7 million. The voice for “representation, travels, trips, hotels and restaurants” was also nourished: about 465 thousand euros. Another 99 thousand euros, then, are invested on the site.
The accounting premises, for 2025, are even more firm. No donation of private munifice or friendly companies. Even the generous financier Davide Serra He has not yet paid a penny.
Now above all the obles of deputies and senators have remained. Thus, between January and August this year, the “injections” just reach 205 thousand euros: a third of the money collected in the same period of 2024.
Forever Young, at least in words
He doesn’t give up. It relaunches vigorously. Soberly celebrated his fifty years In a Florentine theater, on the notes of the Alphaville: “I Want to be forever Young”.
Elly stammers. Giuseppi Cavilla. Matteo’s Supergiovane, on the other hand, seems more toned than ever. It is the undisputed standard bearer of Antimelonian propaganda. The role ensures that endless visibility he desperately needed. Check everywhere. Newspapers and TVs contend for him, hoped to be able to grant agencies a virtue drum.
The bomb never disappoints. After dedicating his latest book entitled to the Premier The influencerit is in swelisting the opponents with unprecedented perseverance.
The faithful to the attack
The most daring attempts are entrusted to the loyalists. The senator Enrico Borghi Meloni falsely accuses of using state flights for his private trips. But forget the mythical “Air Force Renzi”wanted by his leader at the time of Palazzo Chigi and cost 150 million euros.
Another mastiff, the deputy Francesco Bonifazipresents two questions to the Chamber on any gifts received by Meloni and on the money spent on the new home.
He too, caught by selective memory. Was Panorama To reveal that the Renzi Pontassieve villa had been renovated between October 2004 and July 2006 by a friend of the friend of the friend Andrea Bacci: the coam, then failed.
Two months after the end of the works, the entrepreneur was called by Renzi, at the time president of the province of Florence, to direct the investee Florence Multimedia.
Bacci, without receipts, had denied every link: “He paid me, otherwise I did not do those jobs eh!”. Yes, but how much? Isn’t it that there has escaped a gun?
Renzi against Meloni
Consistency, however, does not fall within the qualities of the very triggered. Unlike the danger: «We cannot afford another five years of Melons At Palazzo Chigi, “he warns. “But above all: we cannot allow them to elect the first president of the sovereign republic”.
Under the roof of Reformist houseso. Intended to replicate the branches of the much more famous Vianello house. So much so that Bettini, mindful of bloody disagreements, decides to back up Renzi: “An important thing said: a row must be marked between the past and the future”.
The Redento would even have caught “the authentic tear of our electorate right now: that wants to join a choice of civilizations”.
Center -left optimism
The surveys, for the center -left, are not exciting. Still, optimism seems boundless. Dario Franceschinithe Sherpa Piddino, confirms: “Winning the next political elections is not only possible, it is probable”.
Just a little effort is needed: “The votes of a moderate area are needed which is now fragmented and quarrelsome”. A party that collects at least six percent, therefore.
And who better than an obsessive-compulsive attack can make the dream wandered for years come true?
Leopolda and Nuova Stella
To facilitate the desperate enterprise, Matteo explains: “I don’t want to be a leader of this area, but the reconstructor”. Taken by despair, then starts talking again with the old enemies. Bay even the Unit parties.
Meanwhile, in early October, there is the Leopolda. Among the guests, all the new area potentions: from the mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredito the candidate governor in Puglia, Antonio Decaro.
To illuminate the event, however, it will be the most dazzling star of the firmament. The pupil. The designated heir. AND Silvia Salis, mayor of Genoa. He has already imposed it in Liguria, exploiting the ally cincischments.
Will try to replicate the operation in the wide field. It is not just high, beautiful and blonde. Salis bucks the screen, boasts illustrious supporters, nourishes boundless ambitions.
The investiture arrives last June, when the National Assembly of Italy Viva. “Not surprisingly,” admits Renzi Sibilino. Then, he gets on stage and announces the reformist construction site.
It seems the extreme anchor of his agonizing creature. Matteo, however, does not give up. A papocchio died, he makes another one.
