The deputy premier said the next phase will be focused on cutting taxes — the priority of his pro-business party, the League — and insisted he won’t let European Union rules prevent him from delivering fiscal stimulus to the economy. Five Star saw its share of the vote sink to 17% and was pushed into third place by the center-left Democratic Party. Five Star chief Luigi Di Maio, Italy’s other deputy premier, said his party’s senior leadership hasn’t asked him to resign in the wake of the result.
