ROME (Reuters) - The election of Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi as the new leader of Italy's centre-left Democratic Party (PD), the biggest in the ruling coalition, has boosted support for the bloc by six percentage points nationally, a poll showed on Friday.
The brash, 38-year-old Renzi's landslide victory in a primary ballot on Sunday lifted support to 35.6 percent for the PD this week, from 29.6 percent a week earlier, polling institute SWG said.
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