Centre-left Democratic Party (PD)
leader Nicola Zingaretti said after consultations with President
Sergio Mattarella Wednesday that the PD had agreed to the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) naming the next
premier, expected to be outgoing premier Giuseppe Conte.
Zingaretti said that the PD thought Italy needed a government
that would mark "a turning point and discontinuity" with the
last populist government.
He said that the new government would not take up the baton
from the previous 5-Star-League administration, and would start
a "fresh challenge".
The new government would hopefully usher in a "new season,
civil, social and political".
He said the economic recipe would be "redistributive and
green".
"We have the courage to try," he said.
Conte is expected to be given a mandate by Mattarella on
Wednesday evening.
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