ROME (Reuters) – Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has been asked by Italian President Sergio Mattarella to form the new government, a presidency official said on Friday.
“Giorgia Meloni has accepted the mandate and submitted the list of his ministers,” presidential official Ugo Zampetti said after the interview at the Quirinal Palace.
The coalition government formed by Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia party, Matteo Salvini’s La Liga and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia will be sworn in on Saturday morning and will submit itself next week to a vote of confidence in both chambers of Parliament.
(Report by Gianluca Semeraro, French version Tangi Salaün, edited by Sophie Louet)
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