Leader of Italy's 'the League' Matteo Salvini pledges parliamentary action, slams new PM as 'Mr. X' as Bannon warns against 'sovereignty crisis'

Italy: Salvini pledges parliamentary action, slams new PM as ‘Mr. X’ – YouTube

Leader of the League Matteo Salvini said that his party and the Five Star Movement (M5S) would fulfil their planned “government contract” through parliamentary action, speaking outside the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome on Monday. “We will use the League and Five Star Movement members of parliament to turn at least a part of the government contract that we worked on for three weeks into law,” Salvini said.

Despite not confirming any possible alliance with the M5S ahead of future elections, Salvini said “what I certainly know is that for three weeks we have worked seriously.” The League leader criticised Italian President Sergio Mattarella giving the prime minister mandate Former International Monetary Fund (IMF) senior official Carlo Cottarelli, calling the latter a “Mr. X who has the trust of nobody.”

Bannon warns Rome against ‘sovereignty crisis’

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon said that “foreign powers, capital and media” placed Italy in a “crisis of sovereignty,” speaking in Rome on Monday. “Italy is in a crisis, a crisis of sovereignty. And this was not brought on by the Italian people. This is brought on by the party of Davos, foreign powers, foreign capital and foreign media,”

Bannon told the audience. Bannon pointed out that Italy’s “attempt to put together a left and right populist government is enormous, ” in reference to the duo agreement between leaders of League party and the Five Star Movement.

Bannon’s address comes following a growing political crisis in Rome as the country was plunged into a constitutional crunch. The attempt of the would-be coalition parties Five Stars Movement and League to form a cabinet failed after the country’s president Sergio Mattarella did not accept their Eurosceptic Paolo Savona as economy minister.