Centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
leader Nicola Zingaretti said after government or election talks
with President Sergio Mattarella Thursday that the PD told the
head of State it was willing to try to form a majority with the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) marking a break from
the the policies enacted by the M5S with its former partners in
the nationalist League party.
"We manifested to the president our willingness to verify the
formation of a different majority and the start of of a new
political phase and a government marking political and
programmatic discontinuity", Zingaretti said.
Zingaretti said there should either be a "turning-point
government" or a fresh general election after the League pulled
the plug on its 14-month executive with the M5S.
"There should not be a government at all costs: we need a
turning-point government, alternative to the rightist parties,
with a new, solid programme, an ample parliamentary base, which
will restore hope to Italians.
"If these conditions do not exist, the natural outcome of the
crisis is an early election for which the PD is ready".
He said the PD deemed it "useful" to try to set up a
"turning-point government" for which "we have indicated the
first non-negotiable principles," he said, first and foremost
Italy's "por-European vocation".
The five points to discuss with the M5S that Zingaretti laid
out Wednesday are: "loyal membership of the European Union; full
recognition of representative democracy, starting from the
central role of parliament; development based on environmental
sustainability, a change in the management of migrant flows,
with Europe as a full protagonist; and a turning point on
economic and social recipes, in a redistributive line, which
will open a season of investments."
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