Ex-premier Matteo Renzi said
Wednesday that if he is defeated in his bid to be re-elected
leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), "it seems
evident that this time I will go for good". In an interview with
newsweekly Panorama out tomorrow, Renzi hailed the fact that he
had left the political scene after a resounding defeat in a
December 4 referendum, "restarting from scratch: no office, no
role other than the confidence in me". Renzi is by far the
front-runner in the PD leadership race, ahead of Justice
Minister Andrea Orlando. He quit as premier following the defeat
in a Constitutional reform referendum, and as PD leader to
trigger the porcess of re-election. The new leader will be
announced at the start of May. Puglia Governor Michele Emiliano
is lagging far behind in third place.
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