A cabinet meeting expected to
debate the 'Save Rome' measures splitting the government
partners has been put off till 19:00, premier's office sources
said Tuesday.
The senior government partner, the anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S), is in favour of the measures.
But the junior partner, the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League
party, is against the package.
The package, which had been expected to go into a government
package aimed at boosting growth, aims to boost funding for Rome
and help it cut its large debt.
Sources said the growth decree would no longer be on the
cabinet agenda, however.
But the cabinet meeting will nonetheless examine the
much-awaited growth decree, premier's office sources clarified
later.
The decree has not been formally put on the agenda, they
said, because it was approved by a previous cabinet meeting.
M5S leader Luigi Di Maio said earlier he hoped to persuade
his fellow deputy premier and League leader, Matteo Salvini,
about the importance of the package at the cabinet meeting.
The government partners are currently at odds over a range of
issues including celebrating Liberation Day on Thursday and a
probe in which a League undersecretary, Armando Siri, has been
accused of taking a 30,000 euro bribe from a Sicilian windfarm
king allegedly linked to Cosa Nostra's no.1 fugitive.
photo: Premier Giuseppe Conte
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