Democratic Party (PD) leader
Matteo Renzi said Tuesday that he was confident the centre-left
group will be the party that wins most votes at the general
election set to be held early next year.
"I think that the PD has all the necessary elements to be the
most credible, most convincing party," Renzi said in his e-news
newsletter.
"I think, and I truly believe, that we will be the first
party in terms of votes, the top parliamentary party.
"When the candidates and the voting methods are clear, even
those who have been saying that they have it in the bag since
September will change tone, you'll see.
"The number of people who go into the conclave convinced of
the being the (next) pope who leave it as a cardinal will not be
small".
The PD is set to run alone, or with a small group of alliance
partners, at the election after being spurned by the new
leftwing Free and Equal (LeU) party led by Senate Speaker Pietro
Grasso.
At the moment polls put the PD behind the anti-establishment
5-Star Movement (M5S) and a coalition of a centre-right parties.
The LeU features many former PD members who broke away due
to hostility to Renzi this year.
Renzi said that quarrels within the centre left must stop.
"It is fundamentally important that we turn a new leaf on the
internal rows within the centre left," Renzi said in his e-news
newsletter.
"Those who have chosen the road of division will answer to
the citizens for their choices: we must not attack any one.
"Now the discussion is over and the useless chatter must
stop.
"Let's have fewer personal rows and more content".
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