President Sergio Mattarella starts a
second round of formal government-formation consultations on
Thursday after last month's inconclusive general election.
The president will meet the political parties on Thursday
and then have talks with institutional figures on Friday.
The talks kick off with a meeting with parties representing
autonomous regions (SVP-PATT, UV).
Mattarella then meets representatives of the mixed group
followed by the leftwing Free and Equal (LeU) group.
Later on Thursday Mattarella meets members of the centre-left
Democratic Party and then has a meeting with the three parties
of the centre-right coalition, the League, Forza Italia (FI) and
Brothers of Italy (FdI).
The first day will finish with a meeting with representatives
of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
On Friday the president will meet his predecessor as head of
State, Giorgio Napolitano, and then have talks with Lower House
Speaker Roberto Fico before wrapping up the consultations with
Senate Speaker Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati.
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