Premier Paolo Gentiloni told CNBC
at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday that "the
populists and the anti-Europeans" will not win Italy's general
election on March 4, Bloomberg reported.
Gentiloni was quoted as saying he was hopeful the centre left
would win.
A centre-right coalition featuring Silvio Berlusconi's Forza
Italia and the anti-migrant, Euroskeptic League is currently
favourite to come first in the vote.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, which is running
alone without coalition partners, is the individual party that
is top in most polls, ahead of Gentiloni's centre-left
Democratic Party (PD).
PD leader and ex-premier Matteo Renzi is the party's
candidate to be head of government if it wins the election.
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