Agreed that M5S name new PM - Zingaretti

(ANSA) - Rome, August 28 - 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.