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REFILE-ANALYSIS-Cornered by Draghi, Italy s Salvini shifts his party out of far-right camp Reuters 2/10/2021
(Refiles to remove extraneous word in paragraph 5) Former ECB chief Draghi to lead broadbased government League leader Salvini throws weight behind plan Move shifts League away from eurosceptic camp Salvini hopes to play role in devising recovery plan
By Crispian Balmer and Giselda Vagnoni
ROME, Feb 10 (Reuters) - In February 2017, populist firebrand Matteo Salvini accused the-then European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi of being an accomplice in what he termed the economic massacre of Italy.
Fast forward four years and Salvini has unexpectedly pledged the support of his League party for a government that Draghi is trying to put together to tackle the twin scourges of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis ravaging the country.
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FILE PHOTO: League party leader Matteo Salvini speaks to the media outside Montecitorio, in Rome, Italy, February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
ROME (Reuters) - In February 2017, populist firebrand Matteo Salvini accused the-then European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi of being an accomplice in what he termed the economic massacre of Italy.
Fast forward four years and Salvini has unexpectedly pledged the support of his League party for a government that Draghi is trying to put together to tackle the twin scourges of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis ravaging the country.
For a man who once campaigned for Italy to quit the European single currency, Salvini s endorsement of Draghi marks a potential sea change for the League, shunting it out of the far-right, eurosceptic camp and into the moderate, centre right.
Bianchini, 44, owns a restaurant in Viterbo, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the capital, Rome.
But the business he has owned for 20 years now hangs by a thread, as support measures amounting to 32 billion euros ($39bn) for activities ravaged by the pandemic have again been put on hold, this time after the Italian government fell on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s resignation has plunged the country into further chaos.
Italians are usually able to ignore government frictions, the norm in a country that has been through 66 coalitions since World War II.
But this time, the political crisis is happening during a global pandemic.