MILAN, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Italy’s centrist Azione party will quit the centre-left alliance forged this week with the Democratic Party (PD) ahead of the September 25 general elections, Azione boss Carlo said. Calendar.
Carlo Calenda told Rai Tre on Sunday that he had told PD leaders that Azione would leave the alliance, partly because of the presence of parties that voted against Mario Draghi’s government.
“It’s the hardest decision I’ve had to make in my life,” said Carlo Calenda.
PD secretary Enrico Letta wrote on Twitter: “I listened to Carlo Calenda and it seems to me that the only possible ally for Calenda is Calenda.”
The PD and Azione had expressed their support for the policy followed by the outgoing President of the Council, Mario Draghi, vis-à-vis Ukraine and had pledged to carry out the reforms demanded by the European Union in exchange for the release of recovery funds. allocated by EU Italy.
The Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, which brings together green and left-wing parties, and the centrist party Impegno Civico, founded by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio after his departure last month from the 5-Star Movement (M5S), have joined Saturday the alliance formed by the PD and Azione.
(Report Federico Maccioni Angelo Amante, French version Matthieu Protard and Camille Raynaud)