Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio (L) announced Italian lawyer Giuseppe Conte as candidate for prime minister (AFP Photo/Filippo MONTEFORTE) Rome (AFP) – Italy’s president was tasked on Tuesday with deciding whether to approve little-known lawyer Giuseppe Conte as prime minister of a coalition government set up by anti-establishment and far-right groups.
The presentation of Conte, 54, for the post takes the parties a step closer to setting up a eurosceptic, anti-austerity government in the eurozone’s third-biggest economy.
The anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the anti-immigrant League put his name forward late Monday in a bid to end two months […]
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