Conte wants to serve national interests as prime minister

rome - The intended Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says that his government wants to represent the interests of the ordinary Italian. But he also acknowledges that the government will have to fulfill its European and international obligations.

Conte, a barely known professor of private law, will lead a government coalition of the right-wing populist Lega and protest party M5S, the Five Star Movement. Among other things, they promised to tackle the EU's regulation on monetary union, to do something about the strict tax regime in Italy and to stop immigration.

'I am now prepared to defend the interests of all Italians wherever they are in Europe and internationally,' Conte told reporters after receiving a mandate from President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday. 'I will be the lawyer who defends the Italian people. '

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