Alessandro Di Battista returns via video link to Di Martedì on La 7 and talks about his illness and the "imponderables" that have turned his life upside down: in Cuba, "I started feeling ill due to a cerebral edema caused by a tumor they found," the former MP explained. "They removed almost all of the tumor . And now I'll undergo treatment, hoping it works . I'm part of that club of Italian citizens who say 'why me?'"
"This 21st-century 'plague' has one virtue," the activist continues, "it's democratic. I'm not one of those who says 'I'll make it,' I have to get treatment and have a positive attitude . Those who shouldn't give up are the doctors."
Now, he continues, "I'm being looked after very well." " In Cuba, they performed a very sophisticated operation on me, using technology that was used here 30 years ago ," he says. "And yet, the neurosurgeon saved my life. Yesterday, this doctor wrote to me saying they can't sterilize me because of the lack of electricity."
Hence, the spotlight on the conditions in which the Cuban people find themselves, already denounced this morning on his Substack channel: " The USA continues to behave like mafia and strangle the Cuban people . The situation in Havana is dramatic. In Italy they show us images of Cuban cities full of garbage, without explaining who is responsible for the conditions in which Cubans live."
A word also about Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who during the most difficult moments, Di Battista responds, " behaved well with me personally, as did the entire government ." "She called me when she was in Havana and told me to drop the obscene controversy over that state flight, which was never even a possibility." An "unworthy controversy," says the former Five Star Movement member, as did certain press reports, from which " I discovered I had emerged from a coma I didn't know I'd ever been in " and which several times "gave me up for dead."
Then he looks to the future, ruling out a candidacy: "Me, the Vannacci of the center-left? The broad field is weak," Dibba begins. He takes a dig at the Democratic Party: "How do you expect to win the elections if you essentially have the same position on Ukraine as Meloni? I don't know, right now I don't see the broad field being very clear." Will I run? "We, with the 'Schierarsi' association, had taken the right steps to arrive" at this election "at least with the ability to decide," he reveals, "life is unpredictable," and " now my priority is getting treatment. But what we need to do is continue to develop 'Schierarsi' for when there are other elections in the future."
"But I have to start treatment soon," he concluded. "Now, rightly, I have to think about something else."
(Unioneonline/vl)
