Ex-premier Matteo Renzi said
Thursday that League leader Matteo Salvini has agreed to take
him on in a televised debate next month.
"I am pleased that Salvini has accepted my proposal for a
debate," Renzi, who this week quit the centre-left Democratic
Party (PD) to form his own group, Italia Viva (Italy Alive),
said in his e-news newsletter.
"Finally we will confront each other, on RAI1, between
October 15 and 17".
Before leaving the PD, Renzi was instrumental in the party
forming a pact with the 5-Star Movement (M5S) for a second
government under Premier Giuseppe Conte after former interior
minister Salvini pulled the plug on the first Conte executive
last month.
Renzi, a former PD leader, has said his new group will
continue to support the government.
Italia Viva currently has close to 40 lawmakers in the Senate
and Lower House.
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