A remote challenge is announced between Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein on Sunday 14 December. The first will intervene at the closing of Atreju, the second will be the protagonist of the PD assembly which is being organised. To have them on the same stage we will have to wait, given that the prime minister has refused the face-to-face meeting and the dem secretary has declined the counter-proposal of a three-way confrontation with Giuseppe Conte.
To whom instead the FdI event, on the penultimate day, held an interview with Paolo Del Debbio. Among the opposition leaders absent from the event starting on Saturday in the gardens of Castel Sant’Angelo, only Schlein and Nicola Fratoianni. Thanks go to the others from Giovanni Donzelli, organizational manager of FdI, for their “availability and for not having set conditions”. Matteo Renzi will discuss the reforms with the ministers Elisabetta Casellati, Roberto Calderoli and Paolo Zangrillo. Carlo Calenda will discuss Ukraine with the minister Luca Ciriani, Angelo Bonelli on the green deal with Adolfo Urso.
Among the moments circled in red in the program (82 panels, 450 speakers including 20 opposition representatives and 77 journalists, the organizers explain), the speech by the Palestinian leader Abu Mazen on Friday 12th, Maurizio Molinari’s interview with the Israeli Rom Braslavski, a hostage of Hamas for two years, the following day the panel with the president of the CEI Matteo Zuppi, and obviously Meloni’s final speech, preceded by those of the others center-right leader and ECR president Mateusz Morawiecki.
There will be the traditional Christmas market, the ice rink and more pop moments. Carlo Conti, host and artistic director of the Sanremo Festival, will discuss TV and national popular culture in Italy with Ezio Greggio and Mara Venier.
While the coaches of the national volleyball teams Fefè De Giorgi and Julio Velasco will receive the Atreju award, and Gianluigi Buffon will talk about speakers and sport. A particular focus will be on justice reform and constitutional referendum. Even if in the two rooms, named after Rosario Livatino, “the boy judge” killed by the mafia, and Enzo Tortora, the television presenter victim of a sensational miscarriage of justice, a direct confrontation between Carlo Nordio and the president of the ANM Cesare Parodi will not be staged.
On Thursday 11th the Minister of the Seal will debate, among others, with the president of the democratic judiciary Silvia Albano, one of the judges who rejected the measures on migrants in Albania, Antonio Di Pietro and Gaia Tortora. Parodi, on the other hand, the following day will have Giulia Bongiorno (Lega) and Galeazzo Bignami (FdI) as his counterpoint. Justice, consequently, will also be discussed in the round table on deep fakes, with Arianna Meloni, Francesca Barra, the actor Raoul Bova and the magistrate Valerio De Gioia.
Guido Crosetto will be interviewed by Marco Travaglio, Ignazio La Russa by Enrico Mentana and Raffaele Fitto by Roberto Inciocchi. The CGIL was also among those absent. “In past years – explained Donzelli – we made the invitation and it wasn’t appreciated, this year we didn’t want to insist so as not to put them in difficulty”. There will be the leaders of Cisl, Uil and Ugl, guests of the panel on taxes, employment and development. An amarcord moment will be represented by the confrontation between Gianfranco Fini and Francesco Rutelli, 32 years after the challenge for the Capitol that opened the era of bipolarism.