Italy populists, right-wingers given more time to clinch gov’t deal

ROME, May 14 (Xinhua) — Italian President Sergio Mattarella told the rightwing League and the populist Five Star Movement on Monday that they can have more time to iron out their differences and come up with a joint government.

Monday’s meetings with Mattarella came after a weekend of intensive talks between the two parties, which emerged as the two relative winners of Italy’s inconclusive March 4 general election.

Both League leader Matteo Salvini and Five Star chief Luigi Di Maio declined to say whether they had agreed on a cabinet line-up or on who should be prime minister.In televised remarks after […]

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