Mattarella going beyond powers-Salvini

(ANSA) - Rome, December 15 - Northern League leader Matteo Salvini on Thursday accused President Sergio Mattarella of going beyond the powers given to him by the Constitutional, saying the head of State was following the lead of his predecessor Giorgio Napolitano. "Mattarella is in perfect continuity with Napolitano," Salvini told the radio station of Niccolò Cusano University. "There are presidents who nominate, fire and hire beyond the powers envisioned in the Constitution. Anyway, I hope that we vote (in national elections) in the spring and these governments become a distant memory".