Italy's 5-Star to kick out senators who voted against Draghi


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  • Thursday, 18 Feb 2021

FILE PHOTO: Italy's 5-Star Movement's leader Vito Crimi arrives for a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Italy January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - The leader of Italy's 5-Star Movement on Thursday said a group of senators who broke ranks and rejected Prime Minister Mario Draghi's government in a parliamentary confidence vote will be expelled from the party.

The decision to support Draghi, a former head of the European Central Bank, has lacerated 5-Star, the largest group in parliament, which was created in 2009 as an anti-system, anti-euro party.

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