Lega leader Matteo Salvini, the man of the moment given his party's election gains (mainly in northern Italy, the party's traditional heartland), said Monday that he is willing to talk to all parties but ruled out a broad coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S).
"We have a right and duty to govern," he said, according to Reuters. "The center-right coalition has won and can govern."
This center-right alliance got more votes as a group, but M5S emerged as the largest single party in Sunday's parliamentary election. Neither got enough votes to govern alone, however, which will likely lead to a period of political uncertainty in Italy.
LROBBINS wrote:What that is referring to is that the largest coalition is of Salvini and Berlusconi, though together they still don't have a majority. If they can get enough turncoats from other parties to form a government, Salvini would probably become prime minister because he and Berlusconi had agreed that the party in their coalition with the most votes would get the premiership. (BTW Some nefarious actions would not require new laws, just changes in administrative rules.)
Even the idea of Berlusconic returning would be enough to give the EU apoplexy!
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