Two-time former centre-left
premier Romano Prodi said Tuesday the ruling centre-left
Democratic Party (PD) was in favour of centre-left unity while
the Free and Equal (LeU) splinter party was not.
"Free and Equal is not for the unity of the centre left, full
stop," Prodi told Affaritaliani.it.
Asked if PD leader and former premier Matteo Renzi was in
favour of it, Prodi replied: "Renzi, the group around him, the
PD and those who did deals with the PD are for the unity of the
centre left."
Asked if LeU leader Pietro Grasso and LeU heavyweights
Pierluigi Bersani and Massimo D'Alema were not for this unity,
Prodi answered: "In this moment they are not for the unity of
the centre left. Full stop".
Grasso retorted that "the centre left was split because of
the will of Renzi".
He said "it's clear to all that the centre left was not able
to reunite because of the will of Renzi.
"The drawing up of the lists and the eight confidence votes
on the electoral law are irrefutable proof of Renzi and the PD's
desire to do something else," said Grasso, the former Senate
Speaker and ex-national anti-mafia prosecutor.
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