ROME (Reuters) - Italy's centre-left Democratic Party (PD), which threw away a 10 point lead in opinion polls ahead of last month's election, showed growing internal division this weekend as it struggles to find support to form a coalition government.
On Saturday Matteo Renzi, the 38-year old mayor of Florence who is widely tipped to be the next PD leader, marked out his distance from the current hierarchy and drew an angry reaction from allies of party chief Pier Luigi Bersani.
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