- Two months after its inconclusive general election, Italy’s political parties are still battling to form a government.
- The Five Star Movement is the biggest single party, but will seemingly only consider working with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
- It had previously held talks to govern with the right-wing Lega Nord, but refuses to govern with them unless they cut ties with former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
- Berlusconi’s Forza Italia Party has a long standing alliance with the Lega Nord, although Berlusconi himself is currently banned from office.
- Talks between the Democratic Party and Five Star could start next week, although some PD members are unhappy with the possible alliance.
Italy’s political stalemate shows no sign of easing, with high level disagreements remaining between all the parties with ambitions to govern the currently rudderless nation.
A general election in the country in early March failed to produce a majority winner, or even an obvious structure for a coalition — with the largest single party, the Five Star Movement, initially ruling out entering into government with any other party.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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