Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister
Antonio Tajani, the leader of the centre-right Forza Italia (FI)
party, said the government will remain in office till the end of
its mandate, denying political divisions between members of the
ruling coalition on the sidelines of the national assembly of
the centrist Noi Moderati on Sunday.
"An idea is not a division - an idea is an idea", Tajani said on
the sidelines of the gathering, adding that "having different
opinions is normal and right, then we put them together".
"Nobody should harbour the illusion that there are deep
divisions within this cabinet.
"We will go forward till the end of the legislature.
"Having ideas doesn't mean going against someone", he also
noted, saying that "there is a government program to be
respected which we have always voted".
"We can have different ideas on some issues, otherwise we would
be part of a single party.
"It is useless to try to find divisions that don't exist", he
concluded.
Forza Italia and the right-wing League party led by Deputy
Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini are two of the
three main partners in the right-wing coalition that swept to
victory in the September 2022 general election, spearheaded by
the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party of Italy's first
woman premier, Giorgia Meloni.
Relations between FI and the League have grown occasionally
tense after the party founded by late three-time ex-premier and
media mogul Silvio Berlusconi overtook the League in opinion
polls, at about 9% to 8%, and the League went on to underperform
in recent regional elections in Liguria, Umbria and
Emilia-Romagna.
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