Italy's populists get another chance to form government
ROME (AP) — Italy's president gave populist politicians another chance Wednesday to try to form a coalition government after his naming of an interim leader roiled global markets that feared a new election would amount to a referendum on the euro.
Carlo Cottarelli, the former International Monetary Fund official tapped Monday to be a neutral, temporary premier, said "new possibilities" had emerged for a government based on the results of the March election to run Italy rather than the government of technocrats he would direct.
The two populist parties that prevailed in the March 4 vote — the euroskeptic 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League — presented their proposed Cabinet over the weekend.