When it seemed that Bari could be the laboratory for another political experiment, the broad camp crumbled after the "no" in the M5s primaries three days after the opening of the gazebos . The investigation into the alleged vote swap, the third in a few months, convinced Giuseppe Conte and the candidate Michele Laforgia that the conditions for voting next Sunday were no longer there . A step backwards that ignited the Pd-MoVimento clash and now the progressive camp, the extra-large alliance that goes from the Italian Left and the Greens to Italia Viva e Azione, risks shattering.
«I'm sorry for this reaction from the Democratic Party but we don't accept disrespect and no one can afford to say that the M5s is disloyal or allude to this – Conte said yesterday in Bari, replying to the words of secretary Schlein -. I invite the Democratic Party not to react in a disorganized way. If they don't withdraw the accusations of disloyalty, it will become increasingly difficult to work with the Democratic Party." Already yesterday the "bridge-builders" were set in motion: their mission is to convince the Five Star Movement to eliminate the candidacies of Laforgia and Vito Leccese, former head of Antonio Decaro's Cabinet, and together identify a third figure, from the civic world, who can keep the coalition together. A path that however immediately appears almost impossible.
«Last Wednesday - Conte insisted - I warned secretary Schlein in a long phone call that the situation in Bari was becoming compromised and that if there were new investigations we would not be available to pretend nothing had happened by continuing with the primaries. Unfortunately, a new investigation has taken place, which also has as its object the pollution of the vote and the exchange of votes, the matter is becoming more and more serious. It's not possible to pretend nothing happened."
In the evening, from the stage installed in the central Piazza Umberto, in Bari, for the Leccese rally, Schlein responded with a hard face: «I am here with you because unlike others, I keep my word. And I feel sorry for Giuseppe Conte who, unilaterally, ."
