Rome April 30 (IANS/AKI) Italian grassroots Five-Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio urged Matteo Salvini leader of the country s far-right League party to join his call for early elections in June amid ongoing political stalemate since last month s inconclusive vote.
"At this point for me there is no other solution. We have to go back to the polls as soon as possible " Di Maio said on Facebook blaming centre-left and centre-right parties for refusing to negotiate with his party.
Five-Star is the biggest party after the March 4 election and the centre-right alliance led by Salvini is the largest political bloc in the hung parliament.
"Let s ask together to go and vote " Di Maio said in an appeal to Salvini whose conservative coalition won regional elections in the southern Molise region and the northeast Friuli-Venezia Giulia region this month.
Efforts start talks on a government between Five Star and the centre-left Democratic Party have been thrown into disarray by ex-Premier and former party leader Matteo Renzi who said on Sunday that his party s executive should reject the talks when it meets later this week.
Acting Democratic Party leader Maurizio Martina said on Monday it was "impossible to lead the party" after Renzi s remarks. The party came a distant third in the March vote but has the numbers in parliament to play kingmaker.
Italy has had a caretaker government since the March 4 election. President Sergio Mattarella has failed to end the deadlock despite several rounds of talks with party leaders this month.
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