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It Just Keeps Getting Uglier Between Italy's Populists
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Five Star, League trade vulgarities over embattled lawmaker
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Di Maio calls on Siri to quit before Wednesday cabinet meeting
Photographer: Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Relations between Italy’s feuding populist allies sank to a new low as Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio called for a lawmaker from the League to resign, egged on by an expletive-laced post on his party’s blog.
Di Maio and his Five Star Movement are pressing for Armando Siri, an undersecretary and adviser to League chief Matteo Salvini, to quit ahead of a cabinet session due Wednesday.
