Senior 5-Star Movement (M5S) members
believe the effort to form an coalition government with the
League risks collapsing after President Sergio Mattarella
reportedly vetoed the nomination of Paolo Savona as economy
minister, M5S sources said Sunday.
"In that case, we'll have new elections," the sources said.
Premier delegate Giuseppe Conte was meeting Mattarella at the
Quirinal Palace on Sunday on the possible formation of a
coalition government backed by the M5S and the League to end the
long deadlock that ensued after Italy's March 4 general
election.
The formation of the new executive, which would be headed by
law professor and political novice Conte, has apparently been
held up by League leader Matteo Salvini's insistence that
economist Savona, a former industry minister who has expressed
Euroskeptic positions in the past, should be in the cabinet.
Senior members of the M5S are angry about developments, the
sources said.
The sources said that it is the "biggest fake new in history"
that Savona has called for Italy to quit the euro.
"I want a different Europe, one that is stronger but fairer,"
Savona said in a statement on Sunday.
"Wild controversy has been made out of my ideas. I believe in
European political union".
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