Former Democratic Party (PD)
leader Pier Luigi Bersani on Thursday urged PD leader and
ex-premier Matteo Renzi to "stop" and think "of the country
first, and then the party" amid a rift that looks set to spark a
full-blown split. Bersani said Renzi should not insist on the
"fatal" conclusions of a meeting where a majority petition for
an early congress and early elections was forced through.
Bersani is one of the leaders of dissenting minorities within
the PD that are insisting on Paolo Gentiloni's PD-led government
surviving until the natural end of the legislative term in a
year's time. They are also claiming that Renzi is betraying the
Social Democratic and Christian Socialist heritage in moving it
too far to the centre.
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