Three Lower House MPs, Federica
Zanella, Maurizio Carrara and former undersecretary Laura
Ravetto, said Thursday that they have left Silvio Berlusconi's
Forza Italia (FI) to join Matteo Salvini's right-wing League
party.
There is tension within the centre-right opposition over the
possibility that FI may support some of the government's
measures to tackle the emergency linked to COVID-19.
In a statement, the three lawmakers said they had made the
switch due to "unease at the increasing openings towards the
government and flirtation with the (centre-left) Democratic
Party".
They also said that they thought FI has lost its "thrust".
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