• Elections in Italy Meloni's hard right wins in Italy and shakes the European Union

The leader of the Democratic Party (PD), Enrico Letta, promised today that they will be a "tough and intransigent" opposition and that they will not allow "Italy to leave the heart of Europe and European values", after the victory of the extreme right of Giorgia Meloni and his right-wing allies in the legislative elections this Sunday.

Letta also announced that he will not stand again as general secretary of the PD in the next Congress scheduled for March and that he will leave the leadership after the poor electoral results, in which the party fell below 20%.

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The Italians have clearly chosen, they have chosen the right and there will be a right-wing government

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It is a sad day for Italy, for Europe

and hard days await us. We have fought in every possible way to avoid this, for our values ​​and for a idea of ​​Italy and of our future," he said.

The Social Democratic leader, who took the reins of the PD a little over a year ago, said that the party is "capable of making opposition, we have already done it before" and that it will be "hard and uncompromising".

In his opinion, the PD has been penalized in this electoral campaign by the fact that in the last ten years "we have always been in government in one way or another."

In his appearance to assess the results, Letta also accused the president of the 5 Star Movement (M5S), Giuseppe Conte, of having brought down Mario Draghi's government "which has triggered the arrival of the right" and also accused the rest of progressive political forces for having "worked against" the PD.

Letta considered that her party did everything in its power to build a "credible alternative" to the right, which had a wide advantage in the polls, and although she considered the results "unsatisfactory", she stressed that

the PD is the second force in the country and will be the first of the opposition

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He then announced what he considered "a gesture of love for this party": calling a congress in which a new leader will be elected and ideas will be exchanged to build the future of the Democratic Party.

Letta explained that it weighs "personally" on him that the result of these elections is the government furthest to the right in the history of his country, although he assured that this "is an encouragement" for his party so that "this does not change an Italy that has to be in the heart of Europe".

The right-wing coalition, made up of Brothers of Italy (FdI), Liga and Forza Italia (FI), won the general election with 44.1% of the vote, while Giorgia Meloni's far-right FdI is the the most voted party in the country with 26.2%, so she will be in charge of forming the Government.

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