Anti-migrant, Euroskeptic League
leader Matteo Salvini on Friday said he would not engage in a TV
debate with centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo
Renzi ahead of the March 4 general election.
Salvini said he had been "asking for face-to-face talks with
Renzi for years and he always indignantly refused, and now I'm
supposed to suddenly interrupt my electoral tour to make him
happy - it's too late".
"I'm not going to betray the thousands of voters who flock to
my rallies, who are awaiting me next week in Emilia and Tuscany,
which have been betrayed by the PD.
"I'm looking to the future and I'm not going to waste my time
with someone who's had too much time.
"If Renzi wants a debate I'll see him in a piazza, perhaps in
Bologna where many voters are shifting from the PD to the
League."
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