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| Renzi to resign as head of Democratic Party after ‘clear defeat’ in general election – report | Renzi to resign as head of Democratic Party after ‘clear defeat’ in general election – report |
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| The leader of Italy's Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi, has decided to step down after Sunday’s general election rout, Ansa news agency reported. Renzi’s spokesman, however, said he can’t confirm it. | |
| A center-left bloc led by the ex-prime minister’s party scored some 23 percent, according to projections. It now trails the center-right bloc of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the Euroskeptic Lega Nord as well as the anti-establishment Five Star Movement. | A center-left bloc led by the ex-prime minister’s party scored some 23 percent, according to projections. It now trails the center-right bloc of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the Euroskeptic Lega Nord as well as the anti-establishment Five Star Movement. |
| Renzi’s spokesman told Reuters that he had heard nothing about any decision to step down. | |
| “This is a very clear defeat for us,” Michele Martina, a top figure in Renzi’s party, told reporters earlier on Monday. “We are expecting a result below our expectations... This is very clearly a negative result for us,” he said. | “This is a very clear defeat for us,” Michele Martina, a top figure in Renzi’s party, told reporters earlier on Monday. “We are expecting a result below our expectations... This is very clearly a negative result for us,” he said. |
| Andrea Marcucci, one of the party's lawmakers, admitted that voters “have spoken very clearly and irrefutably.” | Andrea Marcucci, one of the party's lawmakers, admitted that voters “have spoken very clearly and irrefutably.” |
| “The populists have won and the Democratic Party has lost," he wrote in a Facebook post. | “The populists have won and the Democratic Party has lost," he wrote in a Facebook post. |
| Renzi’s rival in Sunday’s election, Matteo Salvini, leader of the Euroskeptic Lega Nord party, has said that his bloc with Berlusconi “won” the elections and can govern. | |
| In the meantime, Professor Marco Bassani told RT that the shake-up of the Italian political scene is rooted in the migration problem, adding that Renzi’s Democrats are “pretty much gone.” | |
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