Overview
- At the PD’s national festival in Reggio Emilia, Schlein told Meloni the opposition will win first in regional contests and then nationally by staying united.
- She said the same progressive coalition is now in place across all regions headed to the polls, a configuration the party argues has not happened in two decades.
- Schlein rejected the idea of a “lone woman in command,” saying a woman premier is not enough without policies that improve the lives of all women.
- Warning of a fragile economy, she predicted a third straight “breathless” budget and said Italy would be in recession without EU recovery funds, while accusing the government of unprecedented meddling in bank mergers.
- She criticized the right’s foreign policy as deferential to Trump and Netanyahu and called for EU-backed diplomacy on Ukraine, and she began her address with a live link to PD figures aboard a flotilla who said they had set sail from Augusta to join vessels from Tunis.