Italy coalition fights over corruption probe as markets fret


  • World
  • Tuesday, 23 Apr 2019

FILE PHOTO: Matteo Salvini looks on next to Luigi Di Maio at the Quirinal palace in Rome, Italy, June 1, 2018. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Italian coalition feuding intensified on Tuesday, with the ruling parties at loggerheads over a junior minister embroiled in a corruption scandal as markets began pricing in a possible government collapse.

The leaders of the right-wing League and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement both said they wanted the alliance to continue, but showed no willingness to compromise over the future of the League official at the centre of the graft probe.

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