Delrio proposes 'control room' to give PD single voice

(ANSA) - Rome, December 7 - Former Transport Minister and senior Democratic Party (PD) member Graziano Delrio on Friday said that the opposition centre-left group should set up a 'control room' to give it a single voice during the current period of transition. "There needs to be a union, a control room made up of the candidates for (next year's) congress, President (Matteo) Orfini and the parliamentary whips," Delrio told a ANSA Forum.
    "The control room should address the country's main problems with a single voice". The PD is still reeling after suffering its worst-ever showing in March's general election.
    Former interior minister Marco Minniti announced in an interview published in Thursday's edition of La Repubblica that he was pulling out of the PD's leadership primaries. The other main candidates for the March 3 primaries are Lazio Governor Nicola Zingaretti and former agriculture minister Maurizio Martina, who was caretaker PD leader after the election debacle. There has been speculation that ex-premier and former PD leader Matteo Renzi could break away to form a new party. Renzi has denied this.