House MP Stefano Fassina, who leads a dissenting minority within Premier Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party (PD), said Thursday "it is no secret" the premier led a dramatic internal revolt that saw 101 PD lawmakers sink the party's official candidate to become Italian president, Romano Prodi, in a secret 2013 vote. His comments came as the nation's '1,009 grand electors' - MPs and representatives of the country's 20 regions - prepare to elect a new president of the Republic in secret votes, starting on January 29.
"We are serious people, unlike those who...led 101 'snipers' two years ago," Fassina told Rome's Radio Città Futura. "I believe people will behave differently on the Italicum (electoral bill) in the Senate," added Fassina, a junior economy minister during the preceding, short-lived administration of fellow PD member Enrico Letta. "There is a part of the PD that won't vote for it".
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