{"id":39873,"date":"2019-08-30T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T01:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=39873"},"modified":"2019-08-30T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T01:53:03","slug":"italy-crisis-pd-and-five-star-agree-coalition-deal-after-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=39873","title":{"rendered":"Italy crisis: PD and Five Star agree coalition deal after talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ROME, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES0 — <\/strong>The leaders of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and populist Five Star Movement have agreed to form a coalition government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We consider it worthwhile to try this experience,” the PD’s Nicola Zingaretti said after meeting the president on Wednesday – the deadline for any deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was agreed that Giuseppe Conte should stay on as prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The planned joint administration will serve until the next scheduled elections in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio welcomed what he referred to as the PD’s willingness to accept Mr Conte’s reappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two parties, traditionally staunch rivals, have been holding tense talks following the collapse of the previous coalition government last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In difficult times like these, shunning our responsibility to have the courage to try this is something we cannot afford,” Zingaretti said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Sergio Mattarella, who met party leaders in Rome to try to chart a way forward, has summoned Conte to a meeting on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two parties have been in discussions since Conte resigned as prime minister in dramatic fashion last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His decision came after Matteo Salvini, the leader of the nationalist League party, tabled a no-confidence motion against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his Aug 20 resignation speech, Conte launched a blistering attack on Salvini, accusing him of being “irresponsible”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salvini’s League party had been in power with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement for 14 months when he effectively ended the coalition, saying he could no longer work with his partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Salvini and Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi called for fresh elections after meeting President Mattarella. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ROME, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES0 — The leaders of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and populist Five Star Movement have agreed to form a coalition government. “We consider it worthwhile to try this experience,” the PD’s Nicola Zingaretti said after meeting the president on Wednesday – the deadline for any deal. It was agreed that Giuseppe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}