Bersani Says Recession Emergency as He Bids for Premiership
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Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani called on Beppe Grillo’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement and Prime Minister Mario Monti’s coalition to back his efforts to form a government based on a program of easing austerity in recession-wracked Italy.
The nation’s priority is getting “out of the austerity cage,” Bersani, whose bloc won the most votes in inconclusive election last month, told about 100 members of the party’s top body in Rome today. Italy’s next government should be an “active protagonist of a rectification of the European policies for stability,” he said.