President Sergio Mattarella is taking
some time out for reflection after League chief Matteo Salvini
and 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio told him Monday
that they wanted law professor Giuseppe Conte to be the premier
of a League-M5S government.
The head of State is holding consultations on Tuesday with
Lower House Speaker Roberto Fico and Senate Speaker Maria
Elisabetta Alberti Casellati.
Mattarella is reportedly concerned about the possible alarm
about the public finances that could be caused by measures in
the "contract for a government of change" that the M5S and the
League agreed on and the eventual autonomy of an unelected
premier.
It is up to the president to decide who should have a mandate
to form a government following the inconclusive March 4 general
election.
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