Berlusconi's Euro Flip-Flops Drive Renzi Campaign Push in Italy
- Media billionaire has been ambivalent about euro in the past
- Ex-premier Renzi struggling to revive ruling Democratic Party
Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi/
Photographer: Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images
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Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi lumped Silvio Berlusconi in with the euroskeptic populists of the Five Star Movement as he tried to turn around his struggling campaign for Italy’s March 4 election.
With his governing Democratic Party slipping in opinion polls and 81-year-old Berlusconi’s center-right coalition moving closer to an outright majority, Renzi on Monday dredged up his rival’s patchy record on the single currency and his alliance with hardliners in a pitch to mainstream voters.