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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Italy's 5-Star is growing threat to F-35 purchase

F-35 Lightning II |Italy's 5-Star Movement, led by comic Beppe Grillo, wants to scrap the country's planned purchase of 90 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets and use the savings to help boost the struggling economy, a lawmaker told Reuters on Tuesday.

Italy has been unable to seat a government since the February national election that left no single force with a working majority in parliament, but 5-Star wants to form parliamentary committees so laws can be made without one.

"We plan on presenting soon a motion in parliament to totally abandon the F-35 programme," Alessandro Di Battista, a 5-Star deputy in the lower house, told Reuters.

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