M5S blasts Renzi 'whining South' remark

(see related)(ANSA) - Rome, August 3 - MPs from the anti-establishment, anti-euro 5-Star Movement (M5S) led by comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo on Monday blasted Premier Matteo Renzi's remark urging critics to stop "whining about the South".
    "With his habitual superficiality, the premier has already solved the problem of the South by reducing everything to a whining fit," the MPs said in a statement.
    "Too bad these are not fits of whining, but cries of pain from a land he himself has helped sink and impoverish with his policies".
    The M5S pointed to the fact that Renzi "let Campania Governor Vincenzo De Luca take office in spite of the fact that he was deemed unfit" under a current anti-corruption law, that he "saved Senator Antonio Azzollini, whom the judiciary says is responsible for the bankruptcy" of a nursing home chain in Puglia.
    "Renzi with the latest budget law cut over three billion euros in funds for the South and scrapped tax breaks as an incentive for new hires," the statement went on.
    "This is how the South dies," the MPs said.