Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has been reelected as head of the Democratic Party during yesterday’s leadership elections.
Renzi, 42 years old, won more than 70% of the votes of the approximately 2 million registered party members that voted. He beat his two competitors, Andrea Orlando, the current minister of justice, and Michele Emiliano, governor of Puglia.
The former prime minister handed in his resignation in December 2016, after losing the constitutional referendum. He had been nominated prime minister by president Napoletano after the fall of the government of Enrico Letta in 2014.
Renzi will now prepare the Democratic Party for the parliamentary elections of May 2018.
