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According to BNN, Baltic News Network, quoting Al Jazeera reporting, the Italian government has collapsed.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned following a decision by the far-right League party to present a no-confidence motion in the 14-month old coalition government.
The move on Tuesday leaves Italy in a political vacuum until President Sergio Mattarella decides whether to form a new coalition or call an election after talks with parties in the coming days.
Mattarella charged Conte with heading a caretaker administration after he handed in his resignation, pending consultations on a new government which are set to begin at 14:00 GMT on Wednesday.
The crisis began on August 8 when Matteo Salvini, the head of the League party, declared his alliance with the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement was dead and called for elections, a move he hopes will make him prime minister.
Addressing parliament on the turmoil unleashed by the League's move, Conte accused Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister and interior minister, of trying to drag down the coalition for personal and political gain, and putting the nation at risk of financial instability.
"I'm ending this government experience here," Conte, who does not belong to either of the coalition parties, said in his almost hour-long speech to the chamber.
Widespread reporting including:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/world/europe/italy-pm-giuseppe-conte-resign.html
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/italian-prime-minister-to-resign-declaring-end-of-government-11566310341
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italian-premier-quits-blames-deputy-1.5253440
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:56AM (14 children)
what's new?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Italy_by_time_in_office [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:00AM (13 children)
Rightwing nationalism being successfully tossed aside before people got killed. New and different, now if the US can git'er done before we go literally Nazi.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:12AM (9 children)
Hear! Hear!
Get out and vote, fellow USA citizens.
Get active politically and take democracy back into the hands of the people, instead of the corp.'s and donors.
Check out wolf-pac.com to get money out of politics.
rts008
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:45AM (8 children)
Today, I went to the Driver's License office for just one reason: I was not eligible for online renewal because, according to them, I had never proved to the state of Texas that I was a citizen of the US. Last election in Texas, I had to have photo ID to prove my identity so I could vote, and the driver's license was an acceptable form of photo ID. I was not asked then if I was a citizen of the US, presumably because having a valid driver's license establishes that. The state could easily ask the federal government for citizenship status, but no, they want it done in the most painfully archaic "papers please" way possible. I had to go to a government office with official paper documents. Naturally, the bureaucracy is underfunded and overworked, and has no choice but to make people wait for hours. I got through in a relatively fast 90 minutes.
I understand what this nonsense is really all about. They don't seriously doubt that I am a genuine citizen. They're trying to discourage people from voting. All this crap at the government office is pure cover, so they can claim that their voter purging processes are not discriminatory. I and many other citizens are being used by the state to put on this fake show of honesty and fairness. They might also hope that all these hoops fatigue some voters. It might discourage urban millennials who have set themselves up so that they don't need a car, which is of course the very voters the conservatives want to shut off, as the young are more likely to vote liberal, or so goes the conventional wisdom. However, the US being such an automobile oriented nation, most people will be much more tenacious about doing whatever it takes to get a driver's license,
So, instead of doing nothing while I waited, I spent my time at the government office chatting up people and pointing this out to them. Showing them that they were being used. They were being forced to give up their day to be unwitting participants in an odious charade. And, what do you know, but most everyone I talked to became even more angry and offended with the state of Texas, and the right wingers who are running things.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @04:15AM (1 child)
What is an Italian doing in Texas?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @12:02PM
Penance? Time?
(Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Thursday August 22 2019, @11:12AM
Your experience was likely caused by the "REAL ID Act". [upgradedpoints.com]
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Thursday August 22 2019, @11:16AM
Unless things have changed since my time in the US, it does not. I've never been a US citizen, but when I lived there as a student, I had no trouble obtaining a driver's license. In fact, having a driver's license was just about mandatory, because everyone expected me to have one: "two forms of ID" meant driver's license and a credit card, not passport and a credit card.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:24PM
Its because California was giving out drivers licenses to illegals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @05:06PM (2 children)
no, it's b/c illegal aliens are being sent in to vote for democrats, tammany hall style. quit acting stupid.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 23 2019, @06:20AM (1 child)
Voter fraud doesn't happen in any significant numbers, even according to the Heritage Foundation, of all things.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 23 2019, @07:34PM
Election fraud on the other hand.... all signs point to Republicans.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:10PM (2 children)
LOL salvini is no orban, he is fine with immigration as long as integration is achieved. In other words, he expects the por guy whom he hosts in his house not to begin dictating what to eat in the house while he rapes his daughter. Now I know this simple concept is lost when immigrants are seen as the way to achieve the destruction of the old classes, but maybe when USrael missiles land on the new founded islamic republics of europe you will consider the plan to have backfired a bit and the old solution of being in charge of a territory as viable, who knows.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @05:50PM (1 child)
>> he is fine with immigration as long as integration is achieved.
That's BS. He is fine to use immigrants as enemies to get more votes.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday August 24 2019, @08:32PM
Those are not immigrants, those are the bricks of the new society as wanted by the 0.1% Not even actual immigrants like them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqgiQG51EKU [youtube.com]
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