Ex-premier and Forza Italia (FI)
leader Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday that his party will not
support the government the League and the 5-Star Movement (M5S)
are set to form.
"A government like this cannot have the support of Forza
Italia," Berlusconi said in a statement.
"Both because of the participation of a political party like
the 5-Star Movement that is totally incompatible with us, and
because of the programmes that have been announced, which are
seriously insufficient to meet the needs of the Italian people".
He said that the contract of government agreed on by the M5S
and the League has "no legal value" and was "half a naive book
of dreams and half made up of worrying choices for Italy and the
Italian people, from infrastructure to justice".
FI was allied with the League in the March election.
After a long post-election deadlock, Berlusconi gave his
blessing to the League to open talks with the M5S, which had
refused to negotiate with the centre right as a whole.
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