{"id":44444,"date":"2018-05-29T01:19:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=44444"},"modified":"2018-05-29T01:19:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T01:19:51","slug":"bid-to-form-government-in-italy-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=44444","title":{"rendered":"Bid to form government in Italy fails"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"International desk- Italian PM-designate Giuseppe Conte has given up his bid to form a government after the country's president vetoed his choice of economy minister.<\/p>\n

President Sergio Matarella said he had agreed to all proposals but could not back Paolo Savona, a eurosceptic.<\/p>\n

Mr Matarella's move angered populist parties trying to form a coalition. Luigi Di Maio, the leader of 5-Star, called for the president's impeachment.<\/p>\n

Italy has been without a government since elections on 4 March.<\/p>\n

Two populist parties, 5-Star, which won 32% of the vote, and the far-right League party, which won 18%, had agreed earlier this month after days of talks to form a coalition.<\/p>\n

There is now a real argument in Italy between the president and the populists about this country's position in the EU, the BBC's James Reynolds reports from Rome.<\/p>\n

As a stopgap move, the head of state has summoned former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economist Carlo Cotarelli potentially to take over as a non-populist prime minister.<\/p>\n

But this appointment may not last and the only immediate solution may be an early election in which, all of a sudden, Italy's membership of the euro and its relationship with the EU itself really are up for discussion, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International desk- Italian PM-designate Giuseppe Conte has given up his bid to form a government after the country’s president vetoed his choice of economy minister. President Sergio Matarella said he had agreed to all proposals but could not back Paolo Savona, a eurosceptic. Mr Matarella’s move angered populist parties trying to form a coalition. Luigi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n