5-Star Movement (M5S) leader
Luigi Di Maio said Thursday that ruling partner the League must
do a deal on a reform to the statute of limitations or else
their government contract would be annulled.
The M5S want the statute of limitations to be stopped after
first-instance trials to stop so many people seeing their trials
timed out and the guilty getting off.
League leader Matteo Salvini says he is amenable to a reform,
but not such a drastic one, which he says will lead to "infinite
trials" both for the innocent and the guilty.
Di Maio and Salvini, the two deputy premiers, are holding a
government summit to try to settle the disagreement on Thursday
morning.
Also present is Premier Giuseppe Conte.
Di maio made his remarks to the Fatto Quotidiano newspaper.
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