ITALY’S new populist leaders have vowed to boot out illegal migrants with mass deportations.

New Interior Minister Matteo Salvini declared the “good times for illegals are over” and warned them to “get ready to pack your bags”.

4 Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini celebrating the 72nd anniversary of the Italian Republic Credit: Getty - Contributor

The leader of the right-wing League party made the promise after attending a pomp-filled military parade yesterday.

Addressing a rally, Mr Salvini said: "The free ride is over.

"It's time to pack your bags."

The firebrand politician was set to attend a rally in Sicily today.

This has been the destination for most of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy in recent years after setting off on smugglers' boats from lawless Libya.

4 Matteo Salvini, sits in his new office, on the occasion of his installation at the Ministry of the Interior in Rome, on Friday Credit: EPA

Mr Salvini said: "We have to improve deals with countries of origin."

Earlier, he joined Premier Giuseppe Conte and the rest of the newly sworn-in Cabinet to view the Republic Day parade.

Italy's aeronautic acrobatic squad flew low and loud over downtown Rome trailing smoke in the red, white and green of the Italian flag.

The national pride on display took on a particular significance this year after Italy ended three months of political and financial turmoil on Friday by swearing in a government whose populist and eurosceptic leanings have alarmed Europe.

4 Cats among the pigeons.... Leader of the League party, Matteo Salvini, right, and Luigi Di Maio, leader of the Five-Star movement, during the swearing-in ceremony for Italy's new government Credit: AP:Associated Press

Conte, a law professor plucked from relative obscurity to head an unlikely governing alliance of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and League, said the celebrations transcended all the tensions of recent days.

"It's the celebration for all of us, of our republic," he said.

Conte's Cabinet was sworn in after a last-minute deal averted the threat of a new election that could have turned into a referendum on whether Italy stayed with the shared European euro currency.

4 Italian Special Forces officers march during yesterdays Republic Day military parade in Rome Credit: Reuters

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The political stability relieved financial markets on Friday.

But Italy's European neighbours continued to express concerns about the eurosceptic bent and the heavy spending agenda of Italy's new government.

"Italy is destroying itself and dragging down Europe with it," read the headline of Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, the cover of which featured a forkful of spaghetti with one dangling strand tied up as a noose.

After months of uncertainty in Italy, 5-Star Movement and League have formed a government with Giuseppe Conte as the new PM

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