Renzi: we in the wide field guarantee for companies, no to more taxes

'Wealth? No thanks. I know it is discussed on the left but it is just a way for the rich to run away elsewhere, to lose capital and investments'. And again: 'The minimum wage? Not enough. What is needed in our country is an entry wage and a start tax, i.e. a tax relief to put more money in the pay envelope of young graduates who otherwise, after investing 250,000 euro of their families' money to get through their studies, rightly prefer to go and work where they are better paid'.

Matteo Renzi appeared before the audience of the Trento Festival of Economics with a clear message: Italia Viva, with its project of a reformist house and 'fourth leg' of the progressive coalition, will be the moderate centre that will allow the PD to return to government and will be the point of reference for the productive and entrepreneurial world. "The centre-left has all the conditions to win because it will be a four-pointed centre-left, and the fourth point is decisive to take some votes from those disappointed by the Meloni government. It's a matter of arithmetic: Pd, M5s and Avs without us lose, as the Liguria case showed (when Giuseppe Conte's veto left Italia Viva out of the alliance, ed). My task is precisely this: to be the interlocutor of businesses and a guarantee that the victory of the centre-left will not lead to an increase in taxation,' he says, claiming the flat tax and the Irap cut for businesses in his government.

Pushed by questions from Radio 24 deputy director Sebastiano Barisoni, Renzi does not shy away from a joke and elicits more than one laugh. Italia Viva's campaign for the 2 per mille in the stations of Milan and Rome, with the posters 'When she was there...' turned against the Prime Minister to make fun of train delays?

'Meloni got angry? Giorgia you don't have to get angry with me for the billboards: you have to get angry with your Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini for the delayed trains. As usual you got it wrong Matteo. However, we thank the premier because she gave us publicity for our funding campaign'. Development Minister Adolfo Urso? "He's not bad, he's just incapable". Has former third-pole comrade Carlo Calenda carved out a role for himself as advisor to the premier on economic matters? 'I hope not for Carlo, given the results...'. And away he goes aiming against the government.

But on closer inspection, the message that the former prime minister wants to send is also addressed to the progressive alliance to be formed and looks precisely at the M5s leader Conte, who in recent days has made an obvious conversion to the centre, ruling out, among other things, future assets. As if to say: 'The fact that I am, among the leaders of the 'wide field', the one who most attacks Meloni does not mean that I am no longer of the centre. On the contrary, the centre is me'.