Matteo Renzi said Monday that the
Democratic Party (PD) will not team up with "extremists" as he
quit the helm of the centre-left group following its poor
showing in Sunday's general election.
"I feel that I'm the guarantor of a moral, political and
cultural commitment," Renzi told a news conference, singling out
the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the anti-migrant,
Euroskeptic League, the two big winners of the vote, as the main
extremist forces.
"We said no to a government with extremists during the
election campaign and we have not changed our minds. We weren't
joking".
He listed three main differences with the League leader
Salvini and M5S premier candidate Luigi Di Maio - "their
anti-European positions, the anti-politics positions and the use
of verbal hatred.
"If they say we are mafiosi, corrupt, unfit to stand with our
hands soiled with blood, you know what? You can govern without
us, out place in in the opposition".
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