Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio said after government crisis
consultations with President Sergio Mattarella Wednesday that
there was a deal with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) for
outgoing premier Giuseppe Conte to take up the reins at the head
of a new M5S-PD executive.
He said that the M5S would not "duck its commitments".
Di Maio said "we feel guaranteed" by Conte "on the policies
we want to implement".
He said that left and right were "outdated" categories and
the M5S was "post-ideological".
On the new government, Di Maio said that programmes would
come first, "ahead of names" for the various posts.
He said there had been "polemics" on his insistence on
remaining deputy premier but stressed that former partner the
nationalist League party had offered him the premiership in
exchange for a renewed government pact.
Di Maio said Us President Donald Trump's support for Conte,
voiced Tuesday, showed that "the path is the right one".
He said it had been thanks to him that Conte, a professional
lawyer and academic with no political experience, had become
premier at the head of the 14-month populist M5S-League
government.
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