Do you want to become president? What are your future ambitions?

My political future on which I concentrate ends in the spring of next year with the elections. I conceive of my unexpected policy commitment as a short-lived one, and I want to bring it to good fruition for the country.

If you leave, are you concerned that Italy may go back to politics as usual — that the gains you were able to make will be lost?

Of course I am concerned about that. I am hopeful that will not happen because politicians have had time to reflect and are working for their rejuvenation. And also Italy, like other countries, is working under European constraints, which limits the degree of imaginative policies that any new government or parliament might bring about.

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