(see related) Michele Dall'Orco and
Nunzia Catalfo, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement's House
and Senate whips, said Wednesday that President Sergio
Mattarella saw corruption as a national problem after meeting
the head of State at the Quirinal palace. They also said
Mattarella viewed Denis Verdini's small Liberal Popular Alliance
- Autonomies (ALA) group, as an addition to the ruling coalition
rather than an integral part of it. The meeting came a day after
Premier Matteo Renzi's government survived two no-confidence
motions filed on the wake of a oil probe in the southern region
of Basilicata with the help of ALA. "Obviously Mattarella
respects the judiciary and he recognised that one of Italy's
main problems is corruption," said Dall'Orco and Catalfo. "For
Mattarella, ALA and Verdini are additional to the majority not a
substitute (to a part of it). The head of State said that if it
were to become a substitute, he would intervene in some way".
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