'PD must fight the right on immigration' says Renzi - update

(ANSA) - Rome, December 1 - Premier Matteo Renzi told the Democratic Party (PD) executive body Monday not to underestimate right-wing opponents.
    "The new right...plays the immigration card in an unscrupulous way, perhaps because we can and should do more for outlying neighborhoods," he said.
    "The PD must not underestimate the new right and it must look them in the eye on issues that have always been slippery ground for the left, such as immigration, on which we hold the opposite view". Renzi went on to quip about the rising star on the right, separatist and anti-immigrant Northern League chief Matteo Salvini.
    "Salvini managed to make (French National Front leader Marine) Le Pen ecstatic," said Renzi. "I imagine it couldn't have been easy".