Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio said after government-formation
consultations with President Sergio Mattarella Thursday that the
M5S had proposed a German-style government contract.
He said that he only recognised the League and not the
centre-right coalition as a whole, as a potential talking
partner.
Di Maio said that the League and the Democratic Party (PD)
were two "alternative interlocutors".
He said that he would ask to meet League leader Matteo Salvini
and Democratic Party caretaker leader Maurizio Martina as soon
as possible.
Di Maiuo said he had never intended to split the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD).
He said his call for possible cooperation was directed at
"the whole PD".
Saying that that the M5S wanted to work for "a majority and a
government of change", he also said that with an M5S-led
government Italy would stay in NATO and the EU, including the
monetary union.
Di Maio said the message from the March 4 general election had
been a "clear" no to any kind of 'technical' government rather
than a political one.
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