Cabinet in office till end, only different ideas - Tajani

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 1 - Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, the leader of the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party, said the government will remain in office till the end of its mandate, denying political divisions between members of the ruling coalition on the sidelines of the national assembly of the centrist Noi Moderati on Sunday.
    "An idea is not a division - an idea is an idea", Tajani said on the sidelines of the gathering, adding that "having different opinions is normal and right, then we put them together".
    "Nobody should harbour the illusion that there are deep divisions within this cabinet.
    "We will go forward till the end of the legislature.
    "Having ideas doesn't mean going against someone", he also noted, saying that "there is a government program to be respected which we have always voted".
    "We can have different ideas on some issues, otherwise we would be part of a single party.
    "It is useless to try to find divisions that don't exist", he concluded.
    Forza Italia and the right-wing League party led by Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini are two of the three main partners in the right-wing coalition that swept to victory in the September 2022 general election, spearheaded by the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party of Italy's first woman premier, Giorgia Meloni.
    Relations between FI and the League have grown occasionally tense after the party founded by late three-time ex-premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi overtook the League in opinion polls, at about 9% to 8%, and the League went on to underperform in recent regional elections in Liguria, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna. (ANSA).