Premier delegate Giuseppe Conte is
meeting President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace at
19:00 on Sunday.
The meeting may lead to the formation of a coalition
government backed by the 5-Star Movement and the League and
headed by law professor Conte to end the long deadlock that
ensued after Italy's March 4 general election.
The formation of the new executive has apparently been held
up by League leader Matteo Salvini's insistence that economist
Paolo Savona, who has expressed Euroskeptic positions in the
past, should be the new economy minster.
Mattarella is reportedly not happy about this pick.
"I want a different Europe, one that is stronger but fairer,"
Savona said in a statement on Sunday.
"Wild controversy has been made out of my ideas. I believe in
European political union".
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