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Salvini Picks His Guy to Take On Brussels Over Italy’s Budget

  • Close aide Giorgetti is now cabinet secretary to PM Conte
  • League leader wants ‘important and courageous’ 2020 budget
Giancarlo Giorgetti

Giancarlo Giorgetti

Photographer: Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg
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Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini would appoint close aide Giancarlo Giorgetti as finance minister if he becomes premier, a signal he would move swiftly to push through huge tax cuts and public works investments to jump start Italy’s weak economy.

“I want an important and courageous budget with a person the world trusts like Giorgetti,” the League leader said in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera. “This is what I want and what I’m working for.”