The second government of
Giuseppe Conte, an alliance between the anti-establishment
5-Star Movement (M5S) and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD),
will have 21 ministers, 10 from the M5S, nine from the PD and
one from the small leftwing Free and Equal (LeU) party.
There are seven women, a third of the total, among
these the only technocrat, Luciana Lamorgese, at the interior.
The M5S also gets the cabinet secretary, Riccardo Fraccaro.
The government will be sworn in at 10 a.m. Thursday and face
confidence votes starting in the House on Monday morning.
Conte said after announcing his list of ministers Wednesday
that "fortified by a programme that looks to the future, we will
devote our best energies, our competencies and our passion to
make Italy better in the interests of all citizens".
New foreign minister and M5S leader Luigi Di Maio said "after
the members' vote on Rousseau we today wrapped up the new
government team. It will be a brave and ambitious government,
able to bring forward important measures for Italy's growth and
development. There is a great desire to do an we'll start off
again from where we left off, with the cut of 345
parliamentarians and saving of around half a billion to be aimed
at schools, infrastructures, hospitals".
Di Maio went on: "at the foreign ministry it will be my job
to aim for the internationalisation of our economic system and
our industry and research, boosting the channels of cooperation
in a multilateral ambit.
"The attention for Africa, the issue of migrations and
relations with new emerging economies will be the guidelines on
which I will build my work".
PD leader Nicola Zingaretti said "this turning point is good,
now it's time to change Italy.
"The government is born in parliament like the previous
government, we have stopped Salvini and the mere announcement of
this phase is making Italy a protagonist again in Europe.
"The incredible fall in the spread that has already
been determined means more money in Italians' pockets.
"We have been united and responsible.
"Now there is a single programme, of all, clear, and a new
team.
"The government is of strong change, also generational".
President Sergio Mattarella said Wednesday "there is a
parliamentary majority and a government has been formed and the
word is over to the parliament and the government which in the
next few days will present itself to the houses of parliament to
ask for confidence and present the programme".
Anti-migrant Euroskeptic League leader Matteo Salvini, who
puled the plug on Conte's last M5S-League government on August 8
citing M5S inaction, said "a government born between Paris and
Berlin and from the fear of leaving their posts, without dignity
and without ideals, with the wrong people in the wrong place".
He said "we are working like and more than before, they
won't be able to dodge the judgement of the Italians for too
long: we're ready, time is a gentleman, in the end it is us who
will win".
Following is the list of ministers, starting with M5S leader
Luigi Di Maio, who picks up the foreign minister's policy after
being deputy premier, labour and industry minister in the first
Conte executive.
*Luigi di Maio (M5S leader) at foreign ministry
*Luciana Lamorgese at interior
*Lorenzo Guerini (PD) at defence
*Roberto Gualtieri (PD) at economy
*Alfonso Bonafede (M5S) at justice
*Stefano Patuanelli (M5S) at industry
*Nunzia Catalfo (M5S) at labour
*Paola De Micheli (PD) at transport and infrastructure
*Enzo Amendola (PD) at European affairs
*Teresa Bellanova (PD) at farm policy
*Roberto Speranza (PD) at health
*Lorenzo Fioramonti (M5S) at education
*Sergio Costa (M5S) at environment
*Dario Franceschini (PD) at culture with tourism brief
*Fabiana Dadone (M5S) at civil service
*Paola Pisano (M5S) at technological innovation
*Giuseppe Provenzano (PD) at ministry for south
*Elena Bonetti (PD) at equal opportunities
*Vincenzo Spadafora (M5S) at youth policy and sport
*Federico D'Incà (M5S) at relations with parliament
*Francesco Boccia (PD) at regional affairs
*Riccardo Fraccaro (M5S) cabinet secretary
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