Salvini blames M5S for blocking government-formation talks
Anti-immigration leader Matteo Salvini clashed with 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Luigi Di Maio once again on Wednesday as Italy's post-election political deadlock approached the two-month mark.
Published: May 3, 2018, 9:00 am
It is “irresponsible” to allegedly block the work of the Italian parliament, Salvini told Di Maio. M5S is blocking the option of launching government-formation talks with Salvini’s League because Salvini has refused to dump its centre-right coalition partners, including Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.
“I don’t respond to insults and foolishness on money and posts, for us loyalty and coherence are worth more than ministries,” he said. “I want to give a government to the Italians, if the M5S prefer to quarrel we’ll do it on our own. Blocking the start of the work of the parliamentary committees is irresponsible”.
Di Maio claims Salvini was relying on Berlusconi for posts and that Italy should return to the polls “immediately”. The M5S wants the League to ditch Berlusconi for any possible government alliance, inorder to weaken the conservative vote.
According to Di Maio “no government of change is possible with Berlusconi and the centre right”. He tweeted: “Salvini has changed his mind and is bowing to him only for posts. Let’s get back to the polls now!”
Di Maio said in 2012 Salvini issued a statement saying no alliance was possible between the League and Berlusconi, but not elaborate on the context.
He also suggested that the League’s “financial troubles” were behind its failure to back the anti-establishment group’s call for an snap election.
“There is no alternative to an immediate new vote,” Di Maio said on the M5S’s blog. “We don’t have any problem with this because citizens support us with small donations.
“Others, on the other hand, are opposed because maybe they have some money problems, with loans and bank guarantees. “But Italy cannot be blocked by the financial troubles of one party”.
The centre right is the top coalition in Italy with 37 percent; the League received 17.5 percent and FI 14 percent of the votes respectively. The umbrella M5S in the March 4 general election gained 32 percent of the vote, and is trying to smash the conservative alliance.
Salvini said on Wednesday said the League remains ready to talk to M5S on electoral reforms. “I am humbly at their disposal from this afternoon, where and when they want, with whomever, live or not live, to sit down at a table with the M5S starting from pension reform, labour reform, reform of the tax system, of the school system, point by point, without experts, to decide how to do these reforms,” he said.
A new electoral law should give a winner’s bonus to the party that “gets one vote more” than the others, Salvini said. “We are ready to take the current electoral law and put a winner’s bonus in that ensures those who get one vote more will govern,” he said. “We don’t want to waste two years, the only possible change is to take this electoral law and to add a couple of lines on the winner’s bonus,” he said.
President Sergio Mattarella’s government-formation hopes on an M5S-centre government has dimmed and he is now hoping the M5S could get together with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), which is badly split on opening talks with the M5S.
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