Italy's Five Star Movement leader softens stance on euro and party alliances ahead of 2018 election
The leader of Italy's Five Star Movement (M5S) party showed a softening in the party's stance on both political alliances with other parties and Italy's membership of the euro in comments made over the weekend.
"If we get 40 percent in the election, we can govern alone," Luigi Di Maio, who was elected as leader of the anti-establishment party in September, said in an interview with Italy's Radio Capital. "If we don't, on the evening of the election I'll make a public appeal to the other political forces that have got into parliament, presenting our programme and our team."
Opening the door to an alliance with other political parties is a turnaround for the M5S, which defines itself as anti-establishment and has long refused to take part in /20171218/italys-five-star-movement-leader-softens-stance-on-euro-and-party-alliances-ahead-of-2018-election#