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Forza Italia loses another lawmaker after govt's collapse

MP Sessa says bringing down govt was against citizens' interests

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 27 - A wave of exits from Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) continued on Wednesday with MP Rossella Sessa quitting the centre-right party in protest after it helped bring outgoing Premier Mario Draghi's national unity government to an early end.
    Parliament has been dissolved for snap elections on September 25 after FI and its allies in Matteo Salvini's League failed to back the executive in a confidence vote last week, along with the 5-Star Movement (M5S).
    Ministers Mariastella Gelmini, Renato Brunetta and Mara Carfagna have also left the party following that move, as have a number of MPs.
    Sessa said her resignation from the party was "necessary" after it pulled is support for Draghi's government.
    "I remain convinced that the crisis, primarily determined by allies' decisions, went against the interests of the moderate world, of companies, of citizens and of southern Italy, where levels of investments not seen in 20 years risk being halted," she said. (ANSA).
   

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