Friday, 29 Mar 2024

Italy gets a populist government

Carlo Cottarelli

After an inconclusive parliamentary election in March, Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League succeeded in forming western Europe’s first populist government, which will be headed by Giuseppe Conte, a law professor at University of Florence. The Cabinet includes Di Maio, the architect of government’s proposed basic income for struggling Italians as welfare minister and Salvini, who has pledged to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants as interior minister.

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