League leader Matteo Salvini on
Monday said Italians had not voted for the rightwing populist
group in order to get former premier and outgoing Democratic
Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi in government.
"The Italians didn't vote for us to bring Renzi back to the
government and (Premier Paolo) Gentiloni neither," he said.
Salvini was answering a question about his centre-right
coalition partner Silvio Berlusconi's appeal to the PD to allow
a new government to be formed.
The PD, which fell to an all-time low of 19% prompting Renzi
to say he was quitting, is also being wooed by the League, which
got 18% to the 14% of Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) party, and
by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), which got 32%
in Italy's hung parliament.
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