Ex-premier Matteo Renzi on Tuesday
mocked 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Beppe Grillo after he
torpedoed the winner of an online poll to become the
anti-establishment group's Genoa mayoral candidate.
"Grillo's system is fantastic," Renzi, who is running to be
re-elected head of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
next month, said in his e-news newsletter.
"Basically he says: we love democracy. We love democracy so
much that if the one we like wins, that's OK, but if the one we
don't like wins, the candidacy goes to someone else and the
unwanted candidate is expelled".
On Friday Grillo sank the candidacy of poll winner Marika
Cassimatis.
Those within the M5S who didn't agree with his decision
"should set up their own party," Grillo said Monday.
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