Italy's political stalemate
following last month's inconclusive general election has
continued with the lead players, the League and the
5-Star-Movement (M5S), still looking distant from reaching an
agreement to form a new government.
M5S leader Luigi Di Maio at the weekend reiterated his call
for the anti-migrant, Euroskeptic League to dump its
centre-right coalition partner, Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia
(FI), to make a deal possible.
But League leader Matteo Salvini said the anti-establishment
M5S should stop imposing vetoes and repeated his assertion that
a united centre-right coalition should be at the heart of the
next executive.
Di Maio is also looking towards the centre-left Democratic
Party (PD), which has said it will be in the opposition after
slumping to its worst-ever showing in the election, but could
reportedly reconsider its position of the stalemate becomes
prolonged.
President Sergio Mattarella said the parties had not made
significant progress towards the formation of a new government
after concluding the second round of formal consultations last
week and said he was taking a few days to assess things.
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