Key ministers in Italy’s populist government

Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the right-wing League have succeeded in forming western Europe’s first populist government, which will be headed by a political novice whose first attempt was rejected as too risky for the Italian economy

Industry and Deputy Prime Minister  Luigi Di Maio, 31 M5S party leader 

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, 53

Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, 45  League party leader

Economy Minister  Giovanni Tria, 69

Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi, 63

Defence Minister  Elisabetta Trenta, 51

European affairs Paolo Savona, 81 


POPULIST PARTIES IN ITALIAN PARLIAMENT: Total 630 seats 

Free and Equal (LeU) 14
Democratic Party (PD) 111
Five Star  Movement (M5S) 222
League (LN) 125
Forza Italia (FI) 104
Brothers of Italy (FdI) 32
Mixed 22
seats 347
 
 

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