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After a week of stand-offs and tough negotiation over the formation of the new government since the February 24-25 elections, Democratic Party (PD) leader Pier Luigi Bersani has issued an ultimatum to Beppe Grillo and his Five Star Movement (M5S).
If the M5S MPs do not support an executive led by the PD and based on an eight-point reform project, Bersani will reject every other solution, triggering another election in the spring.
The main points of this project are fighting corruption and organised crime, slashing the costs of politics through cuts in the number and salaries of MPs, reforming the party system, extending the rights of same-sex couples and what Bersani has vaguely described as “addressing social, economic and civil emergency”.
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