The victory of Alessandra Todde, the
candidate supported by the 5-Star Movement (M5S), the
centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and the Green-Left Alliance
(AVS), shows unity is the key if the centre-left wants to win
back power at the national level, ex-premier and former European
Commission President Romano Prodi said on Tuesday.
"The more the centre left is united, the more it wins," Prodi
told La Stampa.it.
The father of the Ulivo alliance said Premier Giorgia Meloni had
"suffered a double defeat" as she had insisted on Cagliari Mayor
Paolo Truzzu of her right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party
being the centre-right candidate and "that candidate turned out
to be wrong".
FdI's alliance partner, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister
Matteo Salvini's League, had wanted incumbent governor Christian
Solinas of the Sardinian Action Party to be the centre-right
candidate again.
"Now she will have to deal with the awkwardness of a defeat in
which an ally such as the League was forced to back down several
times," said Prodi.
"'Arrogance combined with humiliation put the coalition at
risk," he quipped.
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