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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: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:58AM (8 children)
Somebody's trying to make the American system look extremely stable
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:42AM
The American system is stable. That is the biggest problem with it. You've had the same two parties in control for well over a century with no real opportunity for new blood to enter the system.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:47AM
American stability means each imperial president gets eight whole years to rule by executive order and wage war producing yet another generation of PTSD veterans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @09:26AM (1 child)
Check out China, they've further advanced to a one party system...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @12:05PM
China still has a two party system. Their 2nd party just happens to be called the Imprisoned party.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 23 2019, @01:44PM
Genius!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 23 2019, @03:21PM (2 children)
Italy has always been this way [euronews.com]:
I have no idea how Italy has not dissolved into a Somali/Afghani warlord system, but it hasn't. They're even considered a central member of the EU. How such chaos can co-exist with German Ordnung is a mystery.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday August 23 2019, @03:59PM
How such chaos can co-exist with German Ordnung is a mystery.
:-) Beautiful!
We have troops there to keep the peace.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday August 24 2019, @08:59PM
The government crisis is a tool for justifying inaction. The keywords are "riforme istituzionali". When you hear a newly elected government utter that, it means "ha we fooled you once again, we're not gonna take concrete steps to address actual problems, see you next elections"
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