Italy’s Di Maio Trusts Salvini to Stand by Him for Long Term
- ‘No possibility’ of a coalition rupture after European vote
- Di Maio says government will serve out its term despite rows
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Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio is confident that neither his party nor his ally and sometime rival will pull the plug on their coalition government and put Italy on the path to early elections, despite recurrent tensions.
Though his anti-establishment Five Star Movement has been overtaken by its coalition partner in opinion polls and has suffered repeated body blows in regional elections, the 32-year-old Di Maio says he still has faith in his partnership with the anti-migrant League led by fellow Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini -- even if the League triumphs in European Parliament elections this spring.