(ANSA) - Rome, March 6 - The center-left Democratic Party
(PD) leadership on Wednesday voted with one abstention to
approve the eight-point platform by party chief Pier Luigi
Bersani.
The platform is made up of eight "essential" points that
are broadly in line with the manifesto of the anti-establishment
5-Star Movement (M5S) of ex-comedian Beppe Grillo, who rode a
huge protest vote to become the biggest party in the House and
hold the balance of power in the Senate.
The shocking result came amid widespread public
disenchantment with a political class that has been hit by a
series of corruption scandals and is seen by some as having done
more to protect its privileges than to resolve Italy's economic
ailments.
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