“I CAN’T stay sitting on the sidelines,” sighed Matteo Renzi, the former prime minister of Italy, towards the end of his campaign for re-election as leader of the governing Democratic Party (PD). “I’m not capable of just looking on.”
As of April 30th, he need do so no longer. After the briefest of sojourns in the political wilderness, Mr Renzi won a decisive victory in a public ballot organised by the centre-left PD. Though dubbed a “primary” it was open to any Italian resident prepared to pay the party €2 ($2). Mr Renzi claimed to have taken fractionally more than 70% of the vote, though both his share of the ballot and the reported turnout, of almost 2m people, were contested by his closest rival, the justice minister, Andrea Orlando.
Mr Renzi, who resigned as prime minister in December after losing a constitutional referendum, had quit as the PD’s secretary-general in February to force this vote of confidence in his leadership. After the defeat of...Continue reading
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