Italy's Conte forms new coalition of populists and Democrats
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Premier Giuseppe Conte forged a new coalition government Wednesday that teams up the populist 5-Star Movement and center-left Democrats in an alliance aimed at shutting fast-rising right-wing forces from power.
Six days after President Sergio Mattarella asked him to try to form a new government, Conte reported back to the presidential Quirinal Palace that he had succeeded.
Conte told reporters that he and the new ministers will "dedicate our best energies, our abilities, our passion to making Italy better in the interest of all Italians."
The prime minister's first, 14-month-old government collapsed last month when anti-migrant leader Matteo Salvini yanked his League party out of Conte's coalition.
