Overview
- The four leaders of the campo largo held a roughly three-hour videocall on Friday and agreed a formal timetable for coalition talks and votes.
- Programme negotiations will begin next week with the aim of producing a common platform by November to guide the coalition into the campaign.
- The parties committed to holding primaries by February 2027 to select a prime-ministerial candidate and to resolve previous leadership disputes within the field.
- A national mobilisation is planned for December to coincide with parliamentary debate on the government's budget, while centrist groups such as Italia Viva, Più Europa, Progetto Civico and Più Uno have been invited to join talks.
- Leaders are still negotiating the coalition perimeter and have signalled that smaller left groups like Rifondazione may be kept out of programme tables as they move quickly to present a united alternative to four years of the Meloni government.