Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio on Thursday opened up to the idea of
an M5S government with Matteo Salvini's anti-migrant Euroskeptic
League, possibly with the external support of Silvio
Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia (FI), but insisted that
he must be premier.
Di Maio said after government-formation consultations with
Senate Speaker Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati that the only
possible government was with forces from the M5S and the League.
"Nothing is closed and nothing lost but we won't go beyond
that," he said.
Di Maio said that "we are disposed towards considering as
not hostile" support from FI and the other centre-right partner,
nationalist Brothers of Italy (FdI), but the government must be
formed by a contract signed by himself and Salvini.
He reiterated the M5S could sign a government contract
with the League with FI and Giorgia Meloni's FdI providing
external support, but "we have limits in what we can accept".
Saying that he saw eye to eye with Salvini on "various
issues", Di Maio said government-formation efforts could go
ahead with four-way talks but "without coups de theatres" and
without ministers from three different forces.
"We will go ahead but without coups de theatre such as Di
Maio talking with four parties about ministers or Di Maio in
government without being premier".
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