J. Conte: Former prime minister and current head of Five Star ‘doesn’t know’ if he will run for election

In an interview with Italian public television Rai, former prime minister and current Five Star leader Giuseppe Conte said he “has not yet decided whether to run in the September 25 election”, while adding that his movement’s door is open to any alliances with environmentalists and the party of the Italian Left.

Giuseppe Conte stressed that “there will be many surprises” and that “the candidate MPs and senators of his party are going to be chosen by a vote of the “five stars”, via the Internet. The former Italian Prime Minister confirmed that he is in contact with Alessandro Di Battista, a former member of parliament and one of the well-known founding members of the Five Stars, who could be a candidate in the elections, after “a serious and honest discussion”.

Conte emphasized that the movement he leads “is far from both the right and the jumble of alliances recorded in the wider space of the left”. In the polls so far concerning the intention to vote, the Five Star Movement “convinces” 9% of Italians.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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