(ANSA) - Rome, February 21 - Centre-left Democratic Party
leader Matteo Renzi said Wednesday anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio was heading up a "party of
unpresentables" for the March 4 general election.
The ex-premier said: "Take group photos of the teams: on the
one side the 'spread team' (centre right), on the other the Five
Stars, which in this election has become the party of
unpresentables, the ex-honest ones".
Speaking on Radio capital, he said "Di Maio has become the
leader of the party of unpresentables".
The M5S has recently ejected several candidates because they
broke a party rule on paying back political cash into a
small-business fund, or they turned out to be Freemasons.
Critics have said this and some legal cases have shown the
M5S is less honest than it boasts.
Renzi calls the centre right the 'spread' alliance because it
was last in power when the Italy-German bond spread rocketed as
Italy risked debt default, forcing three-time ex-premier Silvio
Berlusconi to resign in 2011.
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