The centre right on Wednesday
claimed the right to name the Senate Speaker and said the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) should get to name the
Speaker in the Lower House.
In a statement issued after a centre-right summit, the
leaders said "the centre right proposes to the parliamentary
Whips a joint institutional track enabling the winning coalition
(the centre right) to express the Speaker of the Senate and the
top parliamentary force the M5S the Speaker of the House".
Leaders Matteo Salvini, Silvio Berlusconi and Giorgia Meloni
said "to this end, also to agree the names, the centre-right
leaders invite the other political forces to a joint meeting
tomorrow".
Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party has rallied
round Senate Whip Paolo Romani as Speaker candidate in the Upper
House despite a veto from the M5S over a probe for allegedly
misusing a Monza municipal cellphone.
Romani, 70, is the candidate of the whole party, FI sources
said.
Romani's candidacy was at the centre of the talks Wednesday
with the leader of FI's main rightwing populist ally the League,
Salvini, and the leader of its smaller rightist nationalist ally
Brothers of Italy (FdI), Meloni.
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