New phase starts from this rally says Schlein

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 11 - Centre-left opposition DemocraticParty (PD) leader Elly Schlein told a PD anti-government rallyin Rome Saturday that the rally would mark a new phase inbuilding an alternative to the rightwing government of PremierGiorgia Meloni.
   "It is us who must rebuild a progressive field," Schlein toldthe rally, 'For a Fairer Future, There Is An Alternative'.
   "We are here to build hope for the country, and this rally isour response.
   A new phase begins from this rally, we won't leave it here,we'll have to continue to work together, day by day, and wewon't do so alone.
   "There is an alternative, if we make it live together, we willcontinue to seek convergences with the other opposition forces".
   The leaders of the Italian Left and the Green-Left Alliance, whoare allies of the PD, were at the rally in Rome's Piazza delPopolo, as was the leader of the left-wing populist opposition5-Star Movement (m5S), ex-premier Giuseppe Conte, who has saidyes to tactical agreements with the PD on single issues or inlocal elections but no to an organic, structural alliance at anational level. (ANSA).