Ex-premier Matteo Renzi on Friday
ruled out a postponement in next month's Democratic Party (PD)
primaries in which he is standing to be re-elected leader of the
centre-left group.
The PD has been rocked in recent days by a corruption probe
in which Renzi's father Tiziano is under investigation and by
allegations of irregularities in new membership applications in
Campania ahead of the party's congress.
"The congress - with the primaries on April 30 - will be a
great occasion to decide together what Italy we want in Europe
and how the PD should be the engine of that change," Renzi wrote
on his Facebook page. "So (there is) no alibi to postpone the
debate". Culture Minister Dario Franceschini on Friday denied
reports that he had proposed a delay. "I never proposed
postponing the primaries," Franceschini told ANSA. "I don't
usually spend my days denying fanciful behind-the-scenes reports
that regularly come out to cause trouble. But this time I want
to do so to prevent a debate about something that has been
invented".
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