Anti-migrant Euroskeptic League
leader Matteo Salvini, one of the two winners of the March
general election, will meet US Ambassador Lewis Eisenberg on
Wednesday afternoon, ANSA sources said Tuesday.
The ambassador, embassy sources said, plans to have talks to
all major Italian political leaders in the wake of the general
election, which produced a hung parliament.
Salvini's rightwing populist League scored 17.5% in the
election, passing its centre-right ally Forza Italia of
ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi which got 14%.
Salvini thus became the centre-right premier candidate.
The centre right coalition was the top alliance, getting 37%,
but not enough for a majority.
The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) led by Luigi Di
Maio was the other big winner in the vote, getting 32% to become
the top individual party, again without a majority.
Di Maio and Salvini have been holding talks to try to
overcome the parliamentary stalemate.
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