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Italy's Foreign Minister Di Maio resigns as 5-Star leader
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IANS | 23 Jan, 2020
Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on Wednesday announced he would
step down as leader of the troubled anti-establishment 5-Star Movement,
saying he had "completed his task".
"I have completed my task,
today is the end of an era and the Movement must re-invent itself," Di
Maio told a gathering of party activists here, adding that he would
"keep taking an interest in 5-Star".
Di Maio took a swipe at
mounting internal dissent within in the party, whose support has halved
since Italy's 2018 election when it won 33 per cent of the vote and
became the biggest parliamentary party. Over 20 lawmakers have left or
been kicked out since 5-Star went into coalition with the centre-left in
September last year.
"We have been harmed by everyone turning on
everyone else... enough backstabbing," said Di Maio, who was voted the
party's first leader in September 2017.
Di Maio, 33, said he would stay on as Foreign Minster "and continue to work for the good of Italians."
Vito
Crimi, a 5-Star Senator, will become acting party leader as a battle
that could further weaken the fractious ruling coalition is likely to
get underway.
Di Maio's resignation comes as party leader comes
as 5-Star is set for a poor performance this weekend in polls in the
northern Emilia Romagna region, a stronghold of the Italian left.
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