Germany 'concerned' By Renzi Downfall: Foreign Minister
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published December 05, 2016 | 04:55 PM
ATHENS, Dec 5, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 05th Dec, 2016 ) - Germany is "concerned" the government crisis in Italy sparked by the resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi following his referendum defeat, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday.
"We are watching the result in Italy with concern," Steinmeier, who is visiting Greece, told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in televised remarks. "I think Renzi did the right thing, the necessary thing, but voters did not support him," he said through a translator.
"This is not of course a state crisis, but it's a government crisis that needs to be resolved... it's not a positive message to Europe at a difficult time," he added. Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said she "regretted" the outcome of the vote and had had a "very good" working relationship with Renzi.
"But of course we must respect the Italian citizens' decision as well as the prime minister's decision to step down in the wake of the referendum," Seibert told reporters. "Whatever the successor government looks like, the German government will offer it its close cooperation in friendship and partnership." Italians voted on Sunday against proposed reforms that would have curtailed the size and powers of the Senate and transferred powers from regions to the national government.
Opposition parties had denounced the proposed amendments to the constitution as dangerous for democracy because they would have removed important checks and balances on executive power.
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