Premier Giorgia Meloni announced on
Sunday that she was stepping down as the president of the
European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group that her
right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party belongs to.
"When I was asked to extend my term until the (EU) elections (in
June), I agreed," Meloni told the FdI's Atreju festival in Rome.
"Now that the elections have taken place, I think I have
fulfilled my duty and I want to announce that I am going to
resign as president of the European Conservatives".
She said the group "deserves to have a president who can deal
with it full time".
Meloni added that she expected former Polish prime minister
Mateusz Morawiecki of the Law and Justice (PiS) party to run and
would back him if he did.
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