Democratic Centre (CD) leader
Bruno Tabacci on Thursday joined the +Europa group of former
foreign minister Emma Bonino, ending a signatures headache that
had threatened to stop the pro-EU group taking part in the March
4 general election.
Bonino, also a former European commissioner, said "thanks for
your choice, you have made a democratic option possible for us
and for the country at large".
She said +Europa "will be the only fully pro-Europe list at
the elections".
Tabacci solved the problem for the Italian Radicals because
CD is already registered in parliament.
A meeting on January 13 will bless the birth of the new group
formed by Bonino and Tabacci, sources said.
The symbol will read Democratic Centre along with +Europa
with Emma Bonino, they said.
"We will certainly stay on the centre-left, we'll decide in
what way," Tabacci said amid expectations it will ally with the
Democratic Party (PD).
Bonino said "Tabacci and the Democratic Centre's generous and
autonomous gesture, consistent with the European spirit that
marks them out, will enable the +Europa list to be present at
the general election to offer Italians a serious option,
different from all the others, for the civic, social and
economic growth of our country".
She reiterated that the January 13 assembly would decide
where and how the new group would run.
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