ROME (Reuters) - Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi won a primary vote to become leader of Italy's centre-left Democratic Party (PD), preliminary results showed on Sunday, giving him influence over the fragile coalition government and the timing of the next elections.
As secretary of the PD, the brash 38-year-old will likely have to tone down the rhetoric calling for the ouster of the party's top brass that has helped make him one of the country's most popular political figures in the past two years.
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