Italy's Grillo urges debt renegotiation
- Published: 2 Mar 2013 at 21.49
- Online news: World
Beppe Grillo, whose anti-establishment party unexpectedly captured a quarter of the vote in Italy's inconclusive elections, wants to renegotiate his crisis-hit country's debt, according to a German report on Saturday.
The head of the populist Five Star Movement, comedian Beppe Grillo during an electoral rally on February 12, 2013 in Bergamo, northern Italy. Grillo, whose anti-establishment party unexpectedly captured a quarter of the vote in Italy's inconclusive elections, wants to renegotiate his crisis-hit country's debt, according to a German report on Saturday.
"We are being crushed -- not by the euro but by our debt," the comedian-turned-populist firebrand told German weekly Focus.
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