Italy PM Conte to threaten to quit unless coalition squabbles end - papers

 

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium May 28, 2019. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

 

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will threaten to resign on Monday unless the fractious ruling parties settle their differences and get on with governing, several Italian newspapers reported.

 

Relations between the coalition partners, the far-right League and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, soured during the campaign for European elections on May 26.

 

The League won 34.3% of the vote, trouncing its ally and fuelling speculation it might ditch 5-Star and seek a snap election.

 

Conte will make clear in a speech in the afternoon that he wants the coalition to accept European Union budget rules and has no intention of being subjected to a European Union disciplinary procedure over public debt, la Repubblica reported.

 

Since the EU election League leader Matteo Salvini has continued to promise swingeing tax cuts and dismiss EU calls for fiscal discipline.

 

The European Commission wrote to Italy last week asking for an explanation as to why public debt rose in 2018 instead of falling as required, setting the stage for a possible legal clash with the anti-austerity coalition.

 

Conte, a former academic who is close to 5-Star, will ask Salvini and 5-Star chief Luigi Di Maio to say explicitly by the end of this week whether they want to continue their alliance, Il Fatto Quotidiano said.

 

Should they continue to squabble, President Sergio Mattarella will dissolve parliament in July ahead of new elections in September, so as to give the new government enough time to draw up the 2020 budget the following month, Il Fatto and Corriere della Sera said.

 

(Reporting by Giselda Vagnoni, editing by Gavin Jones and Toby Chopra)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-06-03

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Let's get ready for another government, or maybe new elections?
How many governments have we arrived since the end of the Second World War? 70 ... 80 ...?
Long live Italy with its political thieves and corrupt!

italians proved on the last european election , that their IQ is below a donkey brain.
the scigulli, love mafia and thieves politicians.

anyone goes on stage and tell them any bull - excrements , they will vote it.

Salvinis  a racist, a loser who only good to shout on stage, a very opportunist person who is bringing back to fascism italy

1 hour ago, Jerry787 said:

italians proved on the last european election , that their IQ is below a donkey brain.
the scigulli, love mafia and thieves politicians.

anyone goes on stage and tell them any bull - excrements , they will vote it.

Salvinis  a racist, a loser who only good to shout on stage, a very opportunist person who is bringing back to fascism italy

Fascism has never left Italy!

8 hours ago, 30la said:

Let's get ready for another government, or maybe new elections?
How many governments have we arrived since the end of the Second World War? 70 ... 80 ...?
Long live Italy with its political thieves and corrupt!

No: the Italian voters, who every time elected them.

Select those, who have to rule - also in YOUR name - you have to to with your brains, not with your feelings...

When you vote nit-wits into the government, do not be astonished, when you get chaos. see  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Di_Maio