Italy's 5-Star in turmoil as founder lambasts former PM Conte


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  • Wednesday, 30 Jun 2021

FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gestures as he holds a news conference at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, Belgium, December 11, 2020. Olivier Hoslet/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's co-ruling 5-Star Movement was thrown into turmoil on Tuesday after its founder Beppe Grillo said the man primed to become its next leader, former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, was not up to the job.

"Conte ... has neither political vision nor managerial skills. He has no experience of organisations and no capacity for innovation," Grillo wrote in a blog that looked certain to doom the ex-premier's efforts to revive the divided group.

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