League party leader Matteo Salvini said on Monday he also wants to have a TV political debate ahead of the September 25 general election with the leader of the opposition centre-left coalition Enrico Letta.
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Centrist Azione (Action) party leader Carlo Calenda on Sunday pulled out of an election pact with the centre-left Democratic Party (PD). This is a boost to the centre-right alliance.
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Italy Election 2022: On the centre-left, there is still turmoil over an alliance. Meanwhile, the right/centre-right coalition have drafted an initial manifesto.
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Italy’s leading climate scientists signed an open letter published in Wednesday’s edition of La Repubblica. In it they called on the nation’s political leaders and parties to prioritise action to address the climate emergency.
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Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni said Italy will be a reliable international partner if a right/centre-right coalition led by her party wins the September 25 general election.
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Italy’s next government cannot expect Brussels to renegotiate the fundamentals of a €200bn EU-funded Covid-19 recovery plan warns EU economic commissioner. Rome must stick to its reform pledges.
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MPs Annalisa Baroni and Giusy Versace became the latest moderates to quit Forza Italia (FI). Several politicians have left Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right group in protest at its part in the fall of Draghi’s unity coalition.
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Italian President Sergio Mattarella announced today he had dissolved parliament for a general election to be held within 70 days.
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Mario Draghi called a confidence vote in the Senate today. It is on a resolution presented by former Lower House Speaker Pierferdinando Casini asking on him to stay on at the helm of government. The next episode in the government crisis will be clear this evening.
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Following his resignation last week, which was refused by President Mattarella, Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi will address the Senate today. He will tell them whether he is prepared to stay in office or not.
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