Italy’s anti-establishment 5Star Movement got the green light from party members in an online vote on Tuesday to form a new coalition government with the center-left Democratic Party (PD).
Rome will then switch from the first populist government in Western Europe to another first — a ruling alliance between an established party and self-declared populists — and take a stance that’s more focused on the EU and less on Russia.
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The 5Stars announced on Tuesday evening that 79 percent of the nearly 80,000 people who took part in the vote back the deal. Their previous partners, the right-wing League, brought down Europe’s first post-war populist government after 15 months by calling a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. League leader Matteo Salvini’s bid to trigger a new election backfired and banished him to the opposition.
“Now we have [to go] the last mile,” 5Star leader Luigi Di Maio said in a press conference after the vote, referring to the need for a list of Cabinet ministers.
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