Bersani Insists He’ll Form New Government Without Rivals
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Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani, whose coalition won the most votes in Italy’s inconclusive elections, insisted he would form a government on his own without seeking an alliance with his main rivals, ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi and comic-turned-politician Beppe Grillo.
“We have 460 parliamentarians, double what the right got and triple what Grillo won,” Bersani said in an interview last night on state-owned RAI3 television’s “Che Tempo Che Fa” program. “So we will have the first word.”