The president of the Italian Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi, announced today that he is resigning from the post of party leader due to the poor results in the parliamentary elections in Italy.
Renci, who is also a former prime minister, said his party would not form a coalition with the anti-immigrant League for the North and the populist Five Star Movement.
He accused the two parties of undermining European values and of using hate speech when talking about MPs from his party.
According to him, Matteo Salvini of the League for the North and Luigi di Maio of the Five Star Movement called his MPs corrupt mobsters who "have blood on their hands".
"It's us. Rule without us," said Renci and added that the place of the Democratic Party after these elections is in the opposition.
Renzi admitted that his party suffered a "total defeat" in yesterday's elections and added that he will resign as soon as the new government resigns.
The pre-election coalition formed by, among others, the right-wing Forward Italy of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the far-right League of Matteo Salvini won around 37 percent of the vote and is far ahead of the center-left Democratic Party of former prime minister Matteo Renzi, which has 19 percent of the vote.
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