The leader of the largest opposition
party, Elly Schlein, of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD),
on Saturday said a new alliance was necessary to build an
alternative for the country.
Addressing via video link a congress on "Building the
alternative" organized by the PD's Energia Popolare in Rome, the
party's leader stressed that, after regional elections in Emilia
Romagna and Umbria won by centre-left candidates, "we will
promote common battles with the other opposition" members and
work for an "alliance with the country" to build a "proposal for
Italy", but "not on our own".
She also called for European integration.
"We will relaunch European integration: we will preside over the
priorities of the European Socialist Party and the Democratic
Party", said Schlein, adding that she would not back down during
a "European legislature that appears to be very complicated".
Addressing the same congress , the party's President and MEP
Stefano Bonaccini, the former governor of Emilia Romagna, called
for a new centre-left alliance that "gives credibility to our
opposition battle and, in particular, to an alternative
proposal".
He added that forming a 'broad field,' going from the Centre of
the political spectrum to the Left "according to a case-by-case
scheme is not sufficient anymore", noting that the PD did not
intend to become self-sufficient or "hegemonic" but would not
accept to be blackmailed by potential allies.
He also called for "primaries to choose the PD's future
parliamentary candidates".
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