Centre-left wins when it is united says Prodi

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 27 - The victory of Alessandra Todde, the candidate supported by the 5-Star Movement (M5S), the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and the Green-Left Alliance (AVS), shows unity is the key if the centre-left wants to win back power at the national level, ex-premier and former European Commission President Romano Prodi said on Tuesday.
    "The more the centre left is united, the more it wins," Prodi told La Stampa. it.
    The father of the Ulivo alliance said Premier Giorgia Meloni had "suffered a double defeat" as she had insisted on Cagliari Mayor Paolo Truzzu of her right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party being the centre-right candidate and "that candidate turned out to be wrong".
    FdI's alliance partner, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini's League, had wanted incumbent governor Christian Solinas of the Sardinian Action Party to be the centre-right candidate again.
    "Now she will have to deal with the awkwardness of a defeat in which an ally such as the League was forced to back down several times," said Prodi.
    "'Arrogance combined with humiliation put the coalition at risk," he quipped. (ANSA).