Election: Conte hails M5S 'comeback'

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 26 - 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Giuseppe Conte said he was satisfied at the group's showing in Sunday general election, with the M5S projected to get around 15-16% of the vote.
    "They all said we were in for a beating," ex-premier Conte said.
    "We are the third biggest party (in parliament) and so we have a big responsibility".
    The performance appears to have vindicated to some degree Conte's decision to trigger the crisis of government that led to the collapse of outgoing Premier Mario Draghi's coalition, even though this spelled the end of an electoral pact with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
    Conte also said that the M5S would battle hard against any bid by a future centre-right government to scrap the 'citizenship wage' minimum-salary benefit, a flagship M5S policy which was introduced by the first of his two governments. (ANSA).