5Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio | Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images ROME — Italy’s populist forces aren’t quite as close to a governing alliance as they’d claimed.
On Sunday, it seemed like an EU-scaring deal had been struck between the anti-establishment 5Star Movement and far-right League . They had suggested a candidate for prime minister would be named as early as Monday evening.
It didn’t pan out that way.Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella on Monday gave the 5Stars and the League more time to try to hammer out their “government contract” and find a candidate for the premiership, with the two […]
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