Salvini Ready to End Coalition Unless Five Star Plays Ball
- Italy deputy premier to lawmakers: wants to keep pact going
- For Salvini, government stability depends on partner Five Star
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Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has told his party that he wants to keep Italy’s fractious coalition government going, but is ready to see it collapse if he cannot push through his flat tax plans and other priority measures.
Two people present at a closed-door meeting in Rome Wednesday said that Salvini told lawmakers from the rightist League that his alliance with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement could last another four years or it could be over within three months. Salvini has the upper hand in the coalition following the League’s victory in Sunday’s European elections.