Justice Minister Andrea Orlando
said Thursday that he will challenge ex-premier Matteo Renzi for
the leadership of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) at an
upcoming congress.
"I have decided to stand because I believe that politics
should not just be arrogance and I am not resigned to that,"
Orlando said on the sidelines of an initiative in the Rome
seaside district of Ostia.
Puglia Governor Michele Emiliano has said he too will stand
for the leadership, having opted not to join a group of
left-wingers headed by former PD chief Pier Luigi Bersani who
have broken away due to differences with Renzi.
Bersani and his allies said Tuesday that they were quitting
the PD after Renzi refused to make a series of concessions to
them and moved ahead with triggering a congress where he aims to
be re-elected as party chief with a renewed mandate.
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