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Italy's PM designate ends effort to form government

Italy's Prime Minister-designate Giuseppe Conte has abandoned efforts to form a government after the country's president Sergio Mattarella rejected his choice of economy minister.

Italy's PM designate ends effort to form government

Italy's PM designate ends effort to form government

STEPANAKERT, MAY 28, ARTSAKHPRESS:The comments were read out following a Sunday evening meeting between Conte and Mattarella.

The two politicians met to discuss the list of cabinet candidates the would-be coalition partners, the far-right League and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, were proposing.

Conte, a political novice, was appointed on Wednesday in an attempt to end 11 weeks of political stalemate since Italy's March 4 general elections.

Earlier on Sunday, a source said Mattarella had rejected the name of Paolo Savona, the eurosceptic candidate whom the League/5-Star coalition had put forward to head the Economy Ministry.

Savona, 81, is an economist who has previously been a vocal critic of the euro and the European Union.


     

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