5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Giuseppe
Conte said he was satisfied at the group's showing in Sunday
general election, with the M5S projected to get around 15-16% of
the vote.
"They all said we were in for a beating," ex-premier Conte said.
"We are the third biggest party (in parliament) and so we have a
big responsibility".
The performance appears to have vindicated to some degree
Conte's decision to trigger the crisis of government that led to
the collapse of outgoing Premier Mario Draghi's coalition, even
though this spelled the end of an electoral pact with the
centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
Conte also said that the M5S would battle hard against any bid
by a future centre-right government to scrap the 'citizenship
wage' minimum-salary benefit, a flagship M5S policy which was
introduced by the first of his two governments.
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