Law professor Giuseppe Conte is set
to present a list of ministers to President Sergio Mattarella
with Rome Tor Vergata University economic professor Giovanni
Tria, seen as close to Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party,
at the economy ministry instead of rejected first pick Paolo
Savona, seen as too anti-euro.
Former European affairs minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi is set
to be foreign minister.
Moavero was formerly first-grade jusgde at the EU Court of
Justice in Luxembourg and a collaborator of the European
Commission as director general of the Bureau of European Policy
Advisors.
The two government partners, anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio and anti-migrant Euroskeptic
League leader Matteo Salvini, have set aside key ministries to
roll out flagship policies.
Di Maio will head a newly merged industry and labour ministry
to oversee the implementation of a basic income while Salvini
will crack down on undocumented migrants, making good on a vow
to deport 600,000 of them, from his post as interior minister.
Both leaders will be deputy premiers.
Former foreign ministry political advisor and army reserve
officer Elisabetta Trenta gets the defence portfolio while Di
Maio ally Alfonso Bonafede, a lawyer, gets justice.
There will be a handful of women: former Andreotti defence
lawyer and League Senator Giulia Bongiorno will be civil service
minister; medical doctor and M5S MP Giulia Grillo will be health
minister; League lawyer Erika Stefani will be at regional
affairs and Barbara Lezzi, a Lecce native and long-time M5S
member, will get a new ministry for the south.
League member Lorenzo Fontana will get a new ministry for the
disabled and the family, a strong Salvini desire.
Riccardo Fraccaro, a close Di Maio ally, will get relations
with parliament and Gian Marco Centinaio of the League will get
a new superministry combining agriculture and tourism.
The transport and infrastructure portfolio goes to
Marche-born geologist Mauro Coltorti, a Siena university
lecturer before he became an M5S Senator; League PE teacher
Marco Bussetti gets the education portfolio; and Alberto
Bonsoli, an expert in training and design and creator of
international projects, of the M5S, will get the culture
ministry.
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