Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the far-right League have proposed Giuseppe Conte, a civil lawyer and academic, as the country’s new prime minister to lead their populist government.
Luigi Di Maio, Five Star leader, and Matteo Salvini, the League leader, told Sergio Mattarella, Italy’s president, in separate meetings at the Quirinal Palace on Monday that they had chosen Mr Conte as their compromise candidate for prime minister.
It will now be up to Mr Mattarella to decide whether to offer Mr Conte a mandate to form the government. If he does, the new government could be in place within days.
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