The Lower House said Tuesday
Speaker Laura Boldrini will "make her choices regarding the
upcoming general election" only after the 2018 budget is passed
at the end of the year. Boldrini has been linked with a nascent
party to the left of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party
(PD), whose leader is expected to be Senate Speaker Pietro
Grasso. The party is set to be made up of PD splinter MDP,
Italian Left (SI) and also possibly former Milan mayor Giuliano
Pisapia's Progressive Field (CP), as well as smaller parties.
Grasso, after being linked to the new party, has also said he
cannot yet tip his hand. Grasso later Tuesday met with MDP
leader Roberto Speranza, SI leader Nicola Fraoianni and
Possibile leader Pippo Civati, but not Pisapia. No decision was
taken on the symbol of the new party. Former premier and ex-PD
bigwig Massimo D'Alema said that the name of the party that will
be born on Sunday "will not contain the word 'left."
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