ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio mentioned on Tuesday he was leaving the 5-Star Movement to kind a brand new parliamentary group backing the federal government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
Di Maio’s transfer comes after he accused 5-Star chief and former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of undermining authorities efforts to assist Ukraine and weakening Rome’s standing throughout the European Union.
“Today’s is a tough resolution I by no means imagined I must take … however at present me and plenty of different colleagues and buddies are leaving the 5-Star Movement,” Di Maio, himself a former 5-Star chief, instructed a information convention.
(Reporting by Angelo Amante, modifying by Gavin Jones)
