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Plaid Cymru responded robustly to the Conservative' claims, accusing the opposition party of making "cheap points" and calling for it to show "consistency" and "commitment" to developing the north west Wales economy.
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Last year, the former television commentator and former aide to presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan split with Republicans after accusing the party of abandoning social conservatives.
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One of their leading figures, Antonio Di Pietro, the star magistrate whose exposure of corruption helped destroy the old political establishment after 1992, left the party in a huff, accusing Mr Amato of having been too close to a former Socialist prime minister, the late Bettino Craxi, a symbol of the rotten old guard.
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