Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio on Monday called for mass mobilisation in support of the party's announced bid to impeach President Sergio Mattarella for allegedly sinking an M5S-League government bid.
"I call citizens to mobilise, make yourselves heard, it's
important that you do it right now.
We will organise peaceful
and symbolic demonstrations", Di Maio said, urging "everyone" to
come to Rome for a big demo on June 2, national Republic Day.
He said he had draped the Italian tricolour from M5S office
windows and urged militants to do the same, against Mattarella's
alleged flouting of the democratic will in rejecting anti-euro
economist Paolo Savona as economy minister and sinking the
M5S-League government bid.
Speaking after talks with anti-migrant Euroskeptic League
leader Matteo Salvini, Di Maio said that "we ask to go to the
vote as soon as possible".
Asked if that might mean August, he reiterated "as soon as
possible".
Meanwhile, he said, "we are working to get the parliamentary
committees started and start to realise the government contract
by the parliament.
"Until we go to the vote the parliament has only one
majority, M5S-League, and a government contract to be realised".
An impeachment request for President Mattarella will be
presented "as soon as possible" after his "outright
interference" in rejecting Euroskeptic economist Paolo Savona as
economy minister in a potential League-M5S government, M5S
bigwig Manlio Di Stefano said.
"We are meeting to decide (this)", he said, saying the
request would be presented as soon as it as "technically"
possible.
Mattarella's rejection of anti-euro Savona, citing the risk
of financial turmoil hitting Italians' savings, stymied the bid
to create a League-M5S government since Salvini and Di Maio
refused to put forward an alternative candidate.
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