The future of the Democratic
Party (PD) led by Italian Premier Matteo Renzi is uncertain on
Monday following the defeat of a referendum on Constitutional
reform Sunday that brought Renzi's resignation.
Francesco Boccia, a PD member and head of the Lower House
budget committee, said the party should hold a congress in
January with Renzi resigning from his post as party leader.
Boccia said Renzi must "follow the example of (Pier Luigi)
Bersani", one of Renzi's predecessors as chief of the
centre-left party, who stepped down in 2013.
"It no longer makes sense to keep such a directorate," Boccia
said.
"If Renzi wants to run again, he'll have to do it as a simple
member of PD," he said.
ANSA has learned that a national PD directorate meeting to
discuss the referendum results, announced by deputy party
secretary Lorenzo Guerini on Sunday following the vote, will
most likely be postponed from its original scheduled date of
Tuesday.
Meanwhile in France on Monday, the front page of the
afternoon edition of daily Le Monde was headlined "the unknowns
post-Renzi".
"A technocrat government should be nominated until the next
elections," Le Monde said, adding that a "new period of
uncertainty is opening in Europe, while the Italian economy and
its banks haven't been fixed".
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