Giuseppe Conte prepares the "new government". Consultations with the parties but Salvini defects

• Conte receives the assignment: "He will be executive in the name of novelty". Consultations with parties
• Government, Patuanelli: "M5S is monolith, the crisis has regrouped us"
• Salvini: "A robbery of democracy is underway. The 19th October demonstration, day of pride"
• Government: from the EU to NATO, Conte redesigns the Italian position
• Crisis, Mattarella calls Conte at 9.30
• Zingaretti: "Support for initiative for new majority"
• Consultations, Di Maio: "Political agreement with the PD for assignment to Conte"
• Consultations, Berlusconi: "Restoring the word to the Italians, a dangerous scenario is emerging"
• Consultations, Salvini: "They fight before ruling, the only glue is hatred for the League"
• Pd says yes to understanding. M5S defends vote on Rousseau: agreed with Conte. Di Maio: now solutions

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"It will not be a government against, it will be a new government." Conte thus presents, after having been commissioned by Mattarella to the Quirinale, the executive that aims to train on the basis of the new majority M5s-Pd. Work, equality, Europe among the fundamental principles, the Budget Law is the priority. Start sprint consultations, tomorrow the closure. But without Salvini, after the sparks of the Senate, he will desert the meeting and recall the Lega square in Rome on 19 October against the new government. An initiative that divides the center-right: Fdi will manifest the day of trust, Fi is cold. Meanwhile, the Five Stars make a square around Di Maio: 'He who attacks is against us all', says Patuanelli. And confirm the vote on Rousseau.

And today it's up to the 'big'
At 9.30 am Brothers of Italy (there will be no Melons), it will then be the turn of the League (absent Salvini and the group leaders, Senator Durigon and Deputy Bergonzoni will go to Conte from 10.30); then Forza Italia (11.30), Pd (12.30) and M5S (13.30).

The premier, reported to the parties he is meeting, will then take a few days to reflect, draw up the program and define the government team, and would have given Tuesday or Wednesday as an indicative date to return to the Quirinale and dissolve the reserve. From that date, the process that provides for the oath to the Quirinale for President of the Council and ministers will start, programmatic speech to the Chambers (it will begin from Montecitorio) and trust of the two branches of the Parliament.

Conte's speech at the Quirinale: "It will be an executive in the name of novelty"
A government "in the sign of novelty", a "new political project", "a broad reforming season". The speech with which Giuseppe Conte communicated to the Italians that he accepted - with reservation, as usual - the task received from Sergio Mattarella is full of 'clues'. Several listeners are interested in the words he has spoken in the Loggia d'onore, starting with Pd and M5S, forces that will have to support the executive that is about to be born.

"It will not be a government" against "but a government to modernize the country and for the citizens. I will implement a government in the sign of novelty is what the political forces also require", said the premier in his speech. "We are at the dawn of a new EU legislature and we need to make up for lost time to allow Italy to play the leading role it deserves. The country needs to proceed quickly," he said.

Among the priorities indicated is the budget maneuver . "I will immediately work for a maneuver that contrasts the increase in VAT, protects savers, gives a solid prospect of growth and social development," he said. Conte spoke of a "reforming season, of revival, of hopes, which offers the country certainties". We will work for "a better country, a country that has safe infrastructures, efficient networks, that feeds with renewable energies, that enhances the common good, that integrates eco-sustainable well-being that removes inequalities of all kinds into its own political agenda" .

"It must be a country of reference in the protection of people with disabilities, that does not let young people disperse with experiences outside but that it is an attractive country for young people who are abroad, that sees a luxuriant South. A country in the which the public administration is not permeable to corruption, a country with a fairer and more efficient justice where everyone, but everyone, pays taxes but pays less ". This was stated by Giuseppe Conte at the end of the meeting with Mattarella. "Very often in the public interventions so far I mentioned the formula of a new humanism, I never thought it was the slogan of a government but the ideal horizon of the country".

Meanwhile, the first EU reactions have arrived.

Juncker sends 'Happy Birthday' to Conte
European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker sends his "best wishes" to Giuseppe Conte "to succeed in his task of forming a government. Italy plays a central role in the European family and we count on its active contribution to the European project" . So the European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva, who announces a phone call between Juncker and Conte today.

Oettinger: there will be more availability from the EU
The new task conferred on Conte is "a positive development". Now we expect Italy to have "a pro-European government that does not work against Europe", said outgoing EU commissioner Guenther Oettinger in a radio interview with Swr. Brussels "is ready to do anything to facilitate the work of the Italian government when it takes office and to reward it," he added, stating that "there will be more space for a social policy, even if the Social Democrats know well that the unlimited debt in the eurozone is a loss for everyone ".