Salvini rules out early elections: "Government to last until autumn 2027"

The news currently comes from a single source (Italpress, carried by Stampa Parlamento); no independent confirmation is available. The deputy prime minister and leader of the Lega, Matteo Salvini, stated that the government must continue until the natural end of the legislature, set for autumn 2027.

The statement came on the sidelines of a Lega rally in Milan, in response to a question about the hypothesis of a single election day combining general and local elections. Salvini ruled out this possibility, arguing that Italians expect the executive to govern until the last day of the mandate received from the ballot box.

This is a story not covered this morning: the newspaper reported in its morning edition the final approval of the Stabilicum electoral reform, but Salvini’s statement on the timing of the legislature is a separate matter, which emerged in the hours following the vote.

The deputy prime minister’s position comes at a time when the Italian political calendar is already dense with deadlines, with the new electoral law approved only in the last few hours. On the implications of that reform, however, Salvini’s statement does not touch: the issue raised by the deputy prime minister concerns exclusively the duration of the legislature and the rejected hypothesis of a combined election day between general and local elections.

Since no independent confirmation of the statement is currently available beyond the source reporting it, the newspaper publishes it while flagging this limitation in the text, as required by the editorial charter for single-source news. The exclusion of a single election day, if confirmed in the coming days by other sources, would from now on delimit the scope of Italy’s upcoming electoral deadlines, keeping general and local elections on separate calendars until 2027.