Italy’s 5-Star Gets in Tangle Over Draghi

Italy’s 5-Star Gets in Tangle Over Draghi
Interim political head of the Five Star Movement (M5S), Senator Vito Crimi addresses the media at the Quirinale palace in Rome on Jan. 29, 2021. Alessandra Tarantino/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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ROME—Italy’s 5-Star Movement struggled on Feb. 10 to quell its deep divisions over Mario Draghi’s drive to form a government that risks tearing apart the anti-establishment party and delaying the creation of the Cabinet.

Party leaders who met Draghi on Feb. 6 and again on Feb. 9 had sounded upbeat about the prospects of joining the broad-based administration, which he is putting together to tackle the coronavirus health emergency and economic slump.