Popular Civic (CP) leader and
Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin told a Facebook-ANSA live
forum Monday that her centre-left alliance, led by the
Democratic Party (PD), would never govern with the centre right.
"Above all," she said, "there can be no possibility of ruling
with" the anti-migrant and Euroskeptic League of Matteo Salvini.
"No, I made a rather clear choice five years ago when I left
(ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia) FI where I had
campaigned since I was a girl, because it was no longer the same
and the decision to bring down the Letta government would spell
instability for the country. We were right," she said.
Lorenzin said that "in my view Berlusconi's mistake was to
back an electoral law that only rewards the League, and we can
see the fruits" of that.
She said "an electoral campaign appealing to gut instincts
and anger and not based on love creates problems".
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