These are hectic hours for parties ahead of elections next September 25th. The key word is "alliances", which then translates into percentages, votes, seats. Luigi Di Maio, which after the farewell to the Five Star Movement has created Civic Commitment, has in these hours initiated contacts with Italian Animalist Party. "An interview is underway with the top management of Civic Commitment to define together a concrete proposal that characterizes Civic Commitment as well as for its environmental sensitivity also for a animal rights sensitivity“, Announces the party presidency.
Di Maio must expand the electoral base to aim to exceed the 3 percent threshold. Animal rights activists at the 2019 European Championships obtained a percentage of 0,6% nationwide. “We are working”, is the comment to the Adnkronos of the foreign minister Luigi Di Maio's entourage. The contacts are with the founder of the party, Cristiano Ceriello, lawyer, activist for animal rights, as well as director of several documentaries on social and environmental issues.
The Civic Commitment staff confirms that "these are decisive hours": the reference is not only to animal rights activists, but to transversal contacts with civic and territorial movements. From the "dimaiani" instead, silence on the attacks received in recent days by Calenda and Conte. "We must unite and build, the rest does not matter", she filters from the environments close to the head of the Farnesina (Today).