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Italy Premier Drops Coalition Peacemaker Role as Chiefs Feud

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Giuseppe Conte
Giuseppe Conte Photographer: Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg

The referee, it seems, has taken sides.

After spending much of the last 10 months acting as a mediator between the feuding deputy premiers who hold the real power in Italy’s government, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte appears to have sided with one of them: the Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio.