Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said
Monday it was not OK if the government followed the line of the
CGIL trade union and urged Premier Paolo Gentiloni of the senior
partner Democratic Party (PD) to "keep the balance" of the
centre-left-centre-right coalition. Alfano, leader of Popular
Alternative (AP), the juniot government partner, said "we have
been able to govern so far because a lot of laws came from our
programme. If we have to spend this year going backwards to
follow the left, the government will not find us...but we won't
start a crisis tomorrow morning." He said "now the PD Left has
become the CGIL's loudspeaker. If the government is being
blackmailed by the CGIL, we are not open to blackmail by the
CGIL".
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