Italy: Populist leader vows to stick by anti-euro candidate
Posted: May 27, 2018 10:24 AM EDT
Updated: May 27, 2018 10:24 AM EDT
ROME (AP) - The leader of Italy's right-wing League party says he won't give ground in a standoff that is blocking the country's next government from taking office.
League leader Matteo Salvini tweeted Sunday that he would keep fighting "to the end" for the anti-euro candidate he wants to be economy minister.
Paolo Savona has likened Italy to being in a "cage" of austerity restrictions favored by fellow eurozone member Germany. President Sergio Mattarella, who as Italy's head of state must approve the next Cabinet, is staunchly pro-euro.
Salvini and 5-Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio, a fellow euroskeptic, have joined forces in hopes of giving Italy its first populist government.
After inconclusive March 4 elections, they proposed a political novice, law professor Giuseppe Conte, as their choice to lead the next government.
