Enrico Letta steps aside after knowing the results of the Italian elections

Euskaraz irakurri: Enrico Letta alboratu egingo da Italiako hauteskundeetako emaitzak ezagutu ondoren

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

Letta has further announced that will not be presented again as general secretary of the PD in the next congress scheduled for March and that will leave leadership after the poor electoral results, in which the party fell below 20%.

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

The Social Democratic leader, who took the reins of the PD just over a year ago, has said that the party is “capable of making opposition, we have already done it before” and that this will be “tough 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.”

Letta believes that her party did everything in its power to build a “credible alternative” to the right, which had a wide lead in the polls, and although she has considered the results “unsatisfactory”, has highlighted that the PD is the second force in the country and will be the first of the opposition.