5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di
Maio and League chief Matteo Salvini will report to President
Sergio Mattarella later on Monday after finalising a deal for a
new government at the weekend.
The two parties won backing in polls of supporters about a
"contract for a government of change" that they have agreed on
and the leaders have also now reached a broad agreement on key
members of the new executive.
Di Maio and Salvini are tipped to suggest Mattarella gives a
premiership mandate to Giuseppe Conte, a law academic considered
close to the M5S, to end over two months of post-election
political deadlock.
Mattarella will meet with Di Maio and Danino Toninelli and
Giulia Grillo, respectively M5S Senate and Lower House whips, at
5:30 pm.
He will then meet with Senate and Lower House whips for the
Northern League, Gian Marco Centinaio and Giancarlo Giorgetti,
together with the party's leader Salvini half an hour later.
The contract for the M5S-League government features plans to
introduce a two-tier flat tax, a basic income and the revision
of a 2011 pension reform that raised the retirement age, among
other measures.
The M5S is the biggest party in the new parliament after the
March 4 general election.
The League is the biggest party in the centre-right
coalition, which is the bloc that came first in March.
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