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.
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