Stephanie Kelly, a senior political economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments, told Bloomberg she believed a coalition between the Democratic Party (PD) and the Five Star Movement (M5S) to solve the political crisis faced by the Italian Government at the moment, would not last very long. The potential plot to oust Interior Minister and Lega leader Matteo Salvini has been proposed after Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation last week. But Ms Kelly outlined the key "risks" M5S leader Luigi Di Maio and the PD will face if they agreed to form a new government together. She said: “It’s Italian politics so you know, never say never. I think that there are clearly incentives in the short term.
“Essentially, the centre-left PD and the left-wing Five Star Movement (M5S) don’t want to go to elections because their polls have been very poor and so there is an incentive for them to work together.
“However, let’s bear in mind, not even a month ago you were having communications from Matteo Renzi saying we’ll never work with the Five Star Movement.
“Traditionally they are kind of rivals for the same kind of left-wing support base.
“So it’s not the most straightforward coalition to build and I think if we do get a coalition, I’d be surprised if it lasted very long.”
She explained: “The risk for the Five Star Movement is they would lose voters to the Lega because they are seen as working with the establishment - going against the populist cause.
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