Rifts Emerge Between Italy's Populists in Push for Power
- League leader dismisses Five Star offer for joint government
- Salvini does not say whom he would ally with in elections
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Italy’s League leader Matteo Salvini dismissed an offer from the anti-establishment Five Star Movement to revive efforts to form a populist government, calling instead for early elections without revealing whom he might form an alliance with.
“Di Maio’s overture? We’re not at the market and it’s also a question of dignity,” Salvini of the anti-immigrant League told a rally in Pisa, Tuscany on Wednesday. “We tried to form a government with the center-right and then with Five Star and we were always told ‘no’. ”