Posted on 05/22/2018 6:28:25 PM PDT by Nextrush
"So the international press and Italian press are going wild over presumed qualifications that Conte has never claimed to have"
Statement from "Five Star Movement" in Italy May 22,2018
The Italian President Sergio Mattarella may decide tomorrow (Wednesday May 23rd) whether to accept a new coalitiion government of outside political parties (Five Star and League) led by Florence University law professor Giuseppe Conte.
The Italian president held consultations today with the speakers of both houses of Italy's parliament.
But Conte is being probed by mainstream media claiming he may have an "inflated resume" with the "New York Times" obtaining a statement from New York University saying "A person by that name does not show up in any of our records as either a student or faculty member".
The Five-Star Movement was quick to defend the Prime Minister choice Conte noting he did not claim to have received any degrees or taking any specific courses, only to have spent a summer at NYU to perfect his "English legal language skills".
There is a "Financial Times" report of an impasse between the parties and President Mattarella over the choice of a finance minister.
Media reports say the proposed new government will include Paolo Savona a the finance minister.
Savona is reported by the media to be staunchly anti-Euro and has said Italy may need to pull out of the current for the sake of its working people.
They’re basically trying to undermine this guy before he even starts... just like our Deep State and MSM tried to do to Trump. The swamp ain’t going down without a fight.
All of this is being played out because of the EU representative election in mid-summer 2019. There are several countries where anti-EU parties might be able to get some fair numbers (maybe 30-percent of the vote). Part of the other problem is that in a normal national election.....X-number of people will show up, but in a EU election (must be held separately)...maybe only 60 to 70 percent of those voters will show up. It’s those with enthusiasm (like these Five-Star folks) who are hyped up right now and will show up to vote.
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