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Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini’s top aide turned against Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte as tensions within the populist government escalated over immigration before this week’s European vote.
Giancarlo Giorgetti, who’s also Cabinet secretary,
voiced long-running frustration among lieutenants of
the right-wing League party against the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which picked Conte a year ago.
“Conte is no longer impartial,†Giorgetti told newspaper La Stampa. Conte tries to act as a mediator between the League and Five Star but “when the clash becomes tough and he has to take a side, he goes for the stand of those who put him forward,†Giorgetti said.
Conte, a former law professor, was plucked from
obscurity by Salvini and fellow-Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio last year. While never a member of Five Star, Conte was loosely affiliated with the movement in the past and Di Maio once named him as a possible candidate to head the Public Administration Ministry.