Ex-premier Matteo Renzi called for
unity and blasted the left-wingers who recently split from the
Democratic Party (PD) as he launched his campaign to be
re-elected leader of the centre-left group in Turin on Sunday
"Some tried to destroy the PD, but they should accept the
fact that it existed before and it will exist after us," Renzi
said at the end of a three-day conference.
"The match starts now".
Renzi reaffirmed his support for the government of Premier
Paolo Gentiloni, his PD colleague.
Gentiloni, who took over the helm of government after Renzi
quit in December following defeat in a referendum over his
Constitutional reform, refused to speculate on possible future
alliances for the PD.
"My job at the moment is to lead the government," Gentiloni
said.
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