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Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced that he will leave the Democratic Party (PD) of which he was secretary general and will create his own formation, but guaranteed that his group will continue to support the new Government of Giuseppe Conte.

The open secret of Renzi's march was confirmed Tuesday in an interview in the newspaper La Repubblica in which the former secretary general officially announces the separation and defines it as a "good for all . "

The leader of the Italian left explained that the new group "will broaden the basis of parliamentary consensus" to the Government of Conte. This is what Renzi himself explained to Conte in a phone call on Monday night.

"Zingaretti (general secretary of the PD) will no longer have the excuse of saying that he does not control the PD groups because they will now be free of Renzi," the former mayor of Florence continued.

Renzi said that "the PD is a set of currents, with no vision of the future" and that he wants to spend the next few months "fighting (Matteo) Salvini, not defending against the friendly fire."

The former prime minister did not want to advance the name of his new party and explained that the symbol and ideas of the formation will be presented at the next meeting in the Leopolda (political congress created by Renzi). According to some polls, Renzi's party would remain at 5% in the intention to vote.

Renzi assures, who resigned in December 2016 as prime minister after losing the referendum with the reform of the parliamentary system he had proposed, that his departure has nothing to do with being left out in the new Government formed by the PD and the Movement 5 Stars that he promoted.

"That is not the point. If I think about how the institutions are represented now, the new Conte Government seems to me a miracle. Having sent Salvini home is something that will remain in my curriculum as one of the things I feel most proud, "he added.

On the new split of the left, after two years ago with the march of the heavyweights of Pierluigi Bersani and Massimo D'Alema, he explained that the current PD can not "fight only against the aggression of Salvini and the difficult coexistence with the M5S. "

To the question if he feels responsible for having finished with the party that proposed to unite the Italian social democracy, Renzi says: "Come on, it's five years that you tell me that I'm carrying the PD."

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