After days of acrimony, Italy’s Meloni and Berlusconi meet

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Published October 17, 2022 1:04 PM

By NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press

ROME (AP) — Italy’s presumed next premier, Giorgia Meloni, and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi are seeking to put days of acrimony behind them over possible Cabinet picks. They met and presented a united front Monday, before they go into formal consultations over the formation of Italy’s first far-right-led government since World War II. Officials from Meloni’s Brothers of Italy and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia parties said the meeting was carried out in a spirit of “unity of intentions and maximum cordiality and collaboration.” The readout aimed to put a slew of negative headlines about fractures in the center-right coalition to rest before formal consultations on forming a government begin.

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