Translation of an italian political article - University assignement Prodi challenges Renzi. "Does he exhort me to move my tent further? Easily" The founder of the Democratic Party against its current secretary: "My tent is very light. I put it into my rucksack." "The Democratic Party needs to unify, not to split", said Franceschini. The internal challenge to the Left has been deeper and deeper after the disappointing outcome of municipal elections. Democratic Party's founder Romano Prodi -by an unusual action- wrote and published a paper entering into open discussion with the current Democratic Party Secretary, Matteo Renzi. The former Prime Minister and President of the European Commission wrote: "I've read that the Democratic Party Secretary is exhorting me to move my tent a little bit further. I will do it easily: my tent is very light. In the meanwhile I've put it into my rucksack." Renzi's statements The connection is twofold: the methafor for the tent used for the first time in the newspaper "Corriere" -"Politically lively in a tent close to the Democratic Party"- and the "Press release" of the "Nazareno agreement" earlier this morning, where Renzi talked about "continuous debates of the Centre-left" that, "in the end, just help the opponents". During a conversation published in the "Quotidiano Nazionale" (National Newspaper), Renzi said many people -that the editor of the newspaper Andrea Cangini identifies with " Prodi, Orlando, Pisapia, Bersani"- has been preparating their part in the play since several days: they were ready to say "If Renzi loses, the coalition will win", but that's not the reality". The debate A few days before elections there was a debate face-to-face between the two leaders. At its end, Prodi assured Renzi his "tent" -although external- would stand close to the Democratic Party. Straight after elections, while talking to the newspaper "Corriere", Prodi explained that "it's personal vetoes which block everything: so many against Renzi, but also Renzi's vetoes against others." The controversy goes on In the meanwhile, the controversy within the Democratic Party goes on. "Is that amount is enough to realise that something's wrong? The Democratic Party was born to unify the Centre-left, not to split it", tweeted the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, publishing the Democratic Party's voting trend graph in Genoa, Verona, Parma and L'Aquila from 2012 to 2017. P.S.: If something sounds strange in english that's because it sounds strange in the italian version, too.