The Italian League leader, Matteo Salvini, has proposed creating a rightwing political force styled on America’s Republican Party in a move that threatens to spell the end of his tense partnership with his far-right sometime rival Giorgia Meloni.
Salvini’s League and other parties including the centre-left Democratic party and populist Five Star Movement that make up Italy’s broad ruling coalition have been left in disarray after failing to agree on a mutually acceptable candidate for head of state in last week’s presidential election, culminating with Sergio Mattarella, 80, being elected for a second term against his earlier expressed wishes.
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