Strange bedfellows: Can Italy’s battered left prop up a ‘Five-Star’ government?

Strange bedfellows: Can Italy’s battered left prop up a 'Five-Star' government?

© Claudio Giovanninni, AFP | Not under his watch: Matteo Renzi has ruled out an alliance between his battered Democratic Party and the Five-Star Movement. For years, the Democratic Party has been the main target of the Five-Star Movement’s anti-establishment bile. But in the quicksand of Italian politics, an alliance between the two is now one of the few plausible options for forming a government.

He’s going, but not just yet. Italy ’s former prime minister Matteo Renzi said Monday he would quit the leadership of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) following its crushing defeat in Sunday’s general election. […]

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