Italian Elections and Politics 2022 - Our Time to Schlein

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It has been said that the worst day being in power is always a far better day than the best day of being in opposition. This PD/M5S govrnment could easily last right to 2023 and by then who knows what the world will look like and if salvini will be old news.

I know there are people who say "sure let Salvini take absolute power after an election, then he can get blamed when the economy crashes"...many Germans said the same when the non-Nazi parties decided to let Hitler have a turn in power in 1933. In fact the Communists took the attitude of "after the nazis it will be our turn" ..how did that turn out 

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Renzi defects and starts his own party, taking about 20 deputies and 10 Senators with him. He will continue support Conte in the short term he says. Long term the parliamentary Math becomes a bit more tight for Conte. Polls have Renzis Party at some 5%.

What is supposed to be the ideology of this new party?

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Centrist liberalism, basically Macronisme. He sees a space having opened up there since FI has been smashed to pieces by Lega and PD having moved left to coalition with M5S.

How can it be a move to the left for the PD to form a coalition with the rightwing populist M5S when the alternative would almost certainly have been a majority government by the even more rightwing and even more populist Lega under Salvini?

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So Renzi would have preferred a snap election and a salvini majority government? That could have been the last free election in Italy and be the equivalent of the March on Rome in 1923