The resignation of regional affairs
minister Enrico Costa "changes nothing" and Italy will still go
to the polls in early 2018 despite friction between the ruling
centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and Costa's Popular Area (AP),
PD leader and ex-premier Matteo Renzi said Wednesday.
Renzi said Costa, a leading member of Foreign Minister
Angelino Alfano's AP, in resigning had done "better" than those
who want to "have their cake and eat it", keeping a foot in both
camps.
Renzi added that he did not understand those on the left who
"always" saw him as the "enemy" and not rightwing populist
Northern League leader Matteo Salvini or the anti-establishment
5-Star Movement's Beppe Grillo.
Renzi added that the next premier should be the leader of the
party that comes first in the elections.
Renzi was speaking while presenting his new book Avanti
(Forward).
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