The leader of the largest opposition
party, Elly Schlein, of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD),
called on Saturday for a new European integration, addressing a
congress on "Building the alternative" organized by Energia
Popolare in Rome.
"We relaunch European integration: we will preside over the
priorities of the European Socialist Party and the Democratic
Party", said Schlein, adding she would not back down during a
"European legislature that appears to be very complicated".
Addressing the same congress of the PD's Energia Popolare, the
party's President and MEP Stefano Bonaccini, the former governor
of Emilia Romagna, called for a new centre-left alliance that
"gives credibility to our opposition battle and, in particular,
to an alternative proposal".
He added that forming a 'broad field,' going from the Centre of
the political spectrum to the Left "on a case-by-case approach
is not sufficient anymore", noting that the PD did not intend to
"cultivate any self-sufficiency nor hegemonic will" but would
not accept to be blackmailed by potential allies.
He also called for "primaries to choose the PD's future
parliamentary candidates".
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