ROME (Reuters) – Giorgia Meloni, expected to be named Italian prime minister this month, and her coalition partner Silvio Berlusconi had a cordial meeting on Monday and aim to quickly form a “cohesive” government, their parties said.
Tensions have been running high over the allocation of cabinet posts between Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy party led a rightist alliance to victory at a Sept. 25 election, and Berlusconi, who heads the smaller Forza Italia party.
The two appeared to have largely settled their differences at Monday’s meeting.
“Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia … are at work to give Italy a strong, cohesive and high profile government which gets to work immediately to face the urgent issues,” the parties said in a joint statement.
(Reporting by Angelo Amante, writing by Gavin Jones)
