The government will go on
"without ifs or buts", Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said
Wednesday.
Salvini squashed talk of a government crisis stemming from
renewed tension between his nationalist League party and Deputy
Premier Luigi Di Maio's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S).
The tensions worsened despite the end of an acrimonious
European election campaign where the League doubled its
general-election score a year ago to 34% and the M5S halved
theirs to 17%.
This prompted Premier Giuseppe Conte to threaten to quit if
the two partners didn't stop fighting.
"The government will go ahead without ifs or buts," Salvini
said on the local election runoff trail in this Marche coastal
town.
"I keep my promises", said Salvini.
"At a national level my words is valid for five years, at a
local level we are governing well with the centre right in many
towns and regions, and I don't mix up the two. My word is worth
more than opinion polls and some posts. The government is going
ahead without ifs or buts".
Salvini stressed "I've given my word for five years and I
don't go back on it in the face of opinion polls or anything
else".
Conte, for his part, hailed the agreement on a revised tender
public code fo the 'unblock worksites' decree which sealed the
peace between the unruly partners on Tuesday.
He said there were "excellent premises" for a climate of
trust between the M5S and the League.
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