5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di
Maio said Wednesday that "today the third republic has started"
after President Sergio Mattarella summoned the M5S-League
premier pick Giuseppe Conte.
"I had said so, I had promised," he continued. "Obviously,
the president decides, but if he has been summoned...".
The 'first republic' refers to Italy's post-war political
establishment that was brought down by the Tangentopoli
corruption scandal in the early 1990s.
The second republic refers to the political set-up that
followed.
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