{"id":96,"date":"2019-08-31T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/?p=96"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T09:04:23","slug":"has-italys-new-government-pushed-aside-matteo-salvini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/2019\/08\/31\/has-italys-new-government-pushed-aside-matteo-salvini\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Italy\u2019s New Government Pushed Aside Matteo Salvini?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Italy\u2019s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte accepted a mandate to form a new coalition \u2014 one without the Lega party, Matteo Salvini. Populism in Action’s Dr. Daniele Albertazzi was interviewed about this for Turkey’s international TV news channel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Salvini, who has transformed Lega from a regional party for the north into a national force, gambled by bringing down the government in a split with his partner, the Five Star Movement.<\/p>\n

But Five Star reached a deal with the centrist Democratic Party, which led the government until June 2018. And Conte, in an apparent jab at Salvini,\u00a0vowed to lead a \u201cmore united, inclusive\u201d Italy<\/a>: \u201cIt will be a government for the good of the citizens, to modernise the country, to make our nation even more competitive internationally, but also more just, more supportive and more inclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week Conte, a law professor appointed as an \u201cindependent\u201d to hold together the coalition, said in Parliament that Salvini had created a political crisis for \u201cpersonal and party interests\u201d.<\/p>\n

So has Salvini\u2019s quest to fashion himself as the leader of right-wing populism, often bashing both immigrants and the European Union, been halted?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Italy\u2019s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte accepted a mandate to form a new coalition \u2014 one without the Lega party, Matteo Salvini. Populism in Action’s Dr. Daniele Albertazzi was interviewed about this for Turkey’s international TV news channel Salvini, who has transformed Lega from a regional party for the north into a national force, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-96","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-italy","8":"category-populism-in-action-analysis","9":"category-the-project-in-the-media","11":"with-featured-image"},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti.jpg",1280,852,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-1024x682.jpg",905,603,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti.jpg",1280,852,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti.jpg",1280,852,false],"ab-block-post-grid-landscape":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"ab-block-post-grid-square":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"atomic-blocks-featured-image":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-1200x799.jpg",1200,799,true],"atomic-blocks-featured-image-wide":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti.jpg",1280,852,false],"atomic-blocks-logo":["https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-300x200.jpg",300,200,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

On Thursday, Italy\u2019s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte accepted a mandate to form a new coalition \u2014 one without the Lega party, Matteo Salvini. Populism in Action’s Dr. Daniele Albertazzi was interviewed about this for Turkey’s international TV news channel Salvini, who has transformed Lega from a regional party for the north into a national force, gambled by bringing down the government in a split with his partner, the Five Star Movement. But Five Star reached a deal with the centrist Democratic Party, which led the government until June 2018. And Conte, in an apparent jab at Salvini,\u00a0vowed to lead a…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Italy<\/a>, Populism in Action Analysis<\/a>, The Project in the Media<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Josh Allen","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/author\/allenj\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/08\/Salvini_Centinaio_Giorgetti-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Josh Allen","author_link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/author\/allenj\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}