A long-distance back-and-forth. From one side Elly Schlein, in attendance at her party's headquarters, ready to celebrate "the 6-0 runoff" in the municipal elections. From the other Giorgia Meloni, to "shed light on differentiated autonomy" in a long video on social networks, which also contains harsh attacks on the oppositions accused by the Prime Minister of "speaking in civil war tones" on institutional reforms. Besides, even in the Chambers, when it came to autonomy and premierate, tones had been very heated. "Differentiated autonomy in essence means certifying that there are Series A and Series B citizens, Series A patients and Series B patients when there is already a strong health care emigration," Schlein retorts. "Now tell me whether these are civil war tones: I don't know who Giorgia Meloni is referring to, but we are doing a battle on precise issues, providing a proposal for each criticism. I understand that a 6-0 defeat is not easy to swallow, but that does not mean that we should talk about anything else or anyone else". The 6-0 refers to the final tally of victories over the regional capitals in the municipalities, a result that makes the PD Secretary say that "now it will no longer be possible to say that there is a united and a divided party”. Indeed, it is the basis for updating with a new variant the series of slogans based on "coming", inaugurated a year and a half ago by Meloni with the famous "They didn't see us coming": if the results of the Europeans two weeks ago had made Schlein say "we are coming", today the Secretary reinforces the concept: "We are really coming. No more cuts to health care, to low wages while they say no to our minimum wage proposal, to this autonomy that splits the country that instead would need to be patched up". Where the ground could have been slippery is on the controversy over the right to housing: instead, asked about the words of newly elected Avs MEP Ilaria Salis on occupations, Schlein demurs and deflects on the right to housing: "the Left has unfortunately often stopped giving centrality to the right to housing and it is my task to put it back at the center. When I went to university in Bologna, rooms were a dime a dozen; nowadays I meet girls who are forced to move to Faenza. Is this the way to ensure a future for young people? Because then you make the rhetoric about young people who don't want to leave home and you do free internships and cut the Rent Fund...”
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