Attempt to form Italian government

ITALY’S POPULIST 5-Star Movement has said its members would have to approve an agreement with the Democratic Party on forming a government.

The country’s March 4 parliamentary election produced an inconclusive outcome.

A new round of consultations on creating the next Italian government began yesterday.

Five-Star leader Luigi Di Maio declared that all negotiations with the right-wing League dead.

He said the League was “condemned to irrelevance” by refusing to break with former premier Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.

The 5-Stars, the election’s single biggest vote-winners, now are looking to the centre-left Democrats, who are badly divided.

Some want to be in opposition, while others are open to a 5-Star deal.

Mr Di Maio said that Italians should be allowed to vote again, if no deal is reached.