(26 Apr 2019) Italy's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party, has on Friday presented a roster of candidates for the European Parliament elections next month.
The list of candidates includes a Lampedusa doctor, Pietro Bartolo, who has treated migrants saved at sea over many years as well as a prominent anti-mafia prosecutor, Franco Roberti.
Party leader Nicola Zingaretti acknowledged during a news conference in Rome on Friday that the elections "will be a difficult battle," but that the party would confront them with "great conviction."
The center-left party was once a powerful force in Italian politics, and most recently won a 2013 election. But it suffered a heavy defeat in a national election last year to the populist 5-Star Movement and the anti-migrant League, who now govern in a coalition.
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