{"id":40656,"date":"2019-08-29T16:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40656"},"modified":"2019-08-29T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:22:17","slug":"italys-unlikely-coalition-a-big-blow-to-salvini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40656","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s unlikely coalition a big blow to Salvini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/20\/europe\/italy-prime-minister-giuseppe-conte-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Italy&#8217;s<\/a> anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the center-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) agreed on Wednesday to form a new coalition government and avoid <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/08\/europe\/salvini-new-elections-conte-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">snap elections<\/a> which could favor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/14\/europe\/salvini-immigration-amanpour-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matteo Salvini&#8217;s<\/a> far-right League Party.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The two parties entered coalition talks, despite being political enemies, after Italy&#8217;s former ruling alliance &#8212; made up of M5S and the League Party &#8212; collapsed following months of infighting. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Hoping to seize on his rise in popularity, Salvini <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/08\/europe\/salvini-new-elections-conte-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">pushed for new elections<\/a> in recent months, saying that the alliance between his hardline League and the Five Star Movement no longer held a parliamentary majority. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Italy&#8217;s anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the center-left opposition Democratic Party (PD) agreed on Wednesday to form a new coalition government and avoid snap elections which could favor Matteo Salvini&#8217;s far-right League Party.The two parties entered coalition talks, despite being political enemies, after Italy&#8217;s former ruling alliance &#8212; made up of M5S and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}