‘Italian democracy’s darkest night’
immigrant League and their allies in the Five Star Movement (M5S).
Five Star pick for economy min ister, eurosceptic Paolo Savona. The populists cried foul and aban doned their joint bid for power.
That left Cottarelli, a former of surging investor doubts over
The Milan stock exchange plunged more than three percent Mattarella’s veto and subsequent nomination of Cottarelli as caretaker prime minister sparked angry calls for the president’s impeachment, since most law makers backed Savona.
Mattarella said that an openly euroskeptic economy minister was counter to the parties’ joint promise to simply “change Eu rope for the better from an Italian point of view”.
League leader Matteo Salvini, a fellow euroskeptic who was Sa vona’s biggest advocate, said his side’s joint plan for a government
Berlin and Paris.”
“It was a big mistake to say no to a government which had a majority, a program and a list of ministers,” said Salvini.
He added that the future elec tions would be a vote pitting “people and real life against the political old guard.”
The nationalist leader said that there would be League stands all over the country this weekend to collect signatures for a petition calling for the head of state to be “directly elected by citizens.”
Five Star chief Luigi Di Maio called on party supporters to attend a rally in Rome on Sat urday, the anniversary of Italy’s transformation into a republic in
ian democracy’s darkest night”. of the International Monetary
from 2008 to 2013 and became known as “Mr Scissors” for his public spending cuts in Italy.
He said that should his techno
has announced that vote in favor of the government.
Salvini and Di Maio furiously denounced the presidential veto, blasting what they called med dling by Germany, debt ratings
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even alleging tarella’s staff.
“Paolo Savona would not have taken us out of the euro. It’s a lie invented by Mattarella’s advisors,” Di Maio said in a live video on Facebook. “The truth is that they don’t want us in gov ernment.”
Elections could benefit Salvi ni, however, as recent polling by IndexResearch put the League at 22 percent, five points up from its vote share in the March 4 ballot.
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