(ANSA) - Rome, March 16 - Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio reiterated Friday that the populist
Euroskeptic group was insisting on getting the Speakership of
the Lower House after Italy's hung parliament sits on March 23.
Di Maio said this choice was "essential" to "pave the way"
for the abolition of 'vitalizi' parliamentary pensions.
The M5S has long been waging a campaign to abolish these
pensions, which can be accrued after a very short time in
parliament.
They are this seen as the epitome of the waste and corruption
that the M5S has always said it stands against, regarding other
parties as inherently crooked.
Di Maio said that the choice of the two Speakers - the other
being in the Senate - was "crucial".
This, he said, was because the officials are "the arbiters"
of the parliamentary process.
Di Maio insists on House Speakership
Speakerships 'crucal' because arbiters