PD shd be led by psychiatrist - Calenda

(ANSA) - Rome, September 18 - The opposition centre-left Democratic Party is so dysfunctional it should be led by a psychiatrist, party heavyweight and former industry minister Carlo Calenda said Tuesday.
    "The PD is becoming a place in which the only secretary that should stand is the president of the association of psychiatry", he told Italian radio.
    The party is at such a low ebb that it would be better for it not to run in next spring's European Parliament elections, he added.
    PD leader Maurizio Martina, who recently rejected chair Matteo Orfini's call for the party to be dissolved and refounded from the ground up, reacted by calling for "more unity and less arrogance".
    He said "we are the only bulwark against this Right.
    "We must change, but certainly not extinguish ourselves".