Xi will be received Friday by President Sergio Mattarella in Rome, reciprocating his state visit to China in 2017.
The current president of Italy is Sergio Mattarella who took office on February 3,
2015, after the resignation of Giorgio Napolitano in January the same year.
Earlier on Monday Salvini asked Mattarella to give him a mandate to try to form a government
as chief of a centre-right alliance that won the most seats at the election.
Sources close to some of Italy's main parties
say there's a chance President Sergio Mattarella could dissolve parliament in the coming days
and send Italians back to the polls as early as July 29.
Now sources close to some of Italy's main parties
say there's a chance President Sergio Mattarella could dissolve parliament in the coming days
and send Italians back to the polls as early as July 29.
Sources close to some of Italy's main parties said there
was now a chance that President Sergio Mattarella could dissolve parliament in the coming days
and send Italians back to the polls as early as July 29.
It then rests with Mattarella to dissolve the government and decide if
the next step would be snap elections or the installation of a technical government in order to pass the 2020 budget in the autumn.
Sergio Mattarella handed Conte a fresh mandate to form
a cabinet barely a week after the low-key lawyer had resigned following a decision by the far-right League party to pull out of its coalition with 5-Star.
However, the centre-right is some 50 seats short of majority and a source in the president's
office said that without a clear political deal, Mattarella is more likely to try to form
a neutral government acceptable to a broad range of parties.
On 29 August,
Giuseppe Conte was entrusted by Italian President Sergio Mattarella of the task of attempting to form a new government,
after the collapse of the League and Five Star Movement triggered by the withdrawal of Matteo Salvini's(pictured) far-right League party.