President Sergio Mattarella is set
to announce what his next move is on Monday after Senate Speaker
Maria Elisabetta Casellati failed to make a breakthrough last
week with an exploratory mandate to see if she could end Italy's
post-election political deadlock.
The head of State is tipped to give another exploratory
mandate to Lower House Speaker Roberto Fico.
Casellati's mandate involved verifying the possibility of
seeing if it possible to form a government made up of the centre
right, the coalition that came first in last month's
inconclusive general election, and the anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S), the biggest single party in the new parliament.
But the M5S reiterated that it was against forming a
government with the centre right as a whole and was only willing
to hold talks with the League, not with its alliance partners,
Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the rightwing Brothers of
Italy (FdI) party.
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