Populist Italian parties reach deal on new government
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The president had balked at the populist parties’ choice for finance minister, Paolo Savona, an 81-year-old who has been fiercely critical of the EU and has suggested Italy should abandon the euro.
In a concession, the parties proposed a new pick for finance minister, Giovanni Tria, a low-profile economics professor at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. Savona, meanwhile, will be shifted to European affairs minister.
Although technocrats will take some of the government’s top jobs, most observers believe the leaders of the two parties – Five Star’s Luigi Di Maio and the League’s Matteo Salvini – will be the powers behind the new administration.
Both will officially be vice premiers, with Di Maio also taking the economic development ministry and Salvini running the interior ministry, which oversees law enforcement and border control.
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