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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: 3, Informative) by deimios on Thursday August 22 2019, @05:26AM (3 children)
1. Left wing government gets elected with promises of social programs and employee benefits
2. Left wing government fucks up economy with social programs
3. Left wing government drops in approval because of bad economy
4. Right wing government gets elected with promises of fixing economy
5. Right wing government fixes economy with unpopular measures by crippling the public sector and favoring corporations over people
6. Right wing government drops in approval because public sector and employees unhappy
7. GOTO 1
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday August 22 2019, @08:14AM
M5S ranks 1st among other parties in welfare expansion, environmental protection, and market regulation, where welfare expansion meant the expansion of public social services (excludes education), environmental protection meant policies in favor of preserving/conserving the environment, and market regulation meant policies designed to create an equitable and open economic market.
That’s “right wing”?
Cool.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:21PM (1 child)
* middle of the road centrist party somehow manages to get into power.
* manages to set up a very balanced sustainable slow growth economy
* solid but uninspired social programs and semi-subsidized healthcare.
* everything balanced on knife edge but working.
* external instability rocks the boat.
* meta-stable situation collapses.
* Right and Left flip the table
* Back to Boom Bust cycles.
OR
* Balancing act somehow lasts 20 years.
* middle of the road centrist party becomes entrenched.
* Some complete sociopath realizes path to power is become party leader.
* State devolves into single party state, and infighting between semi-right and semi-left members of the party is the new norm.
(Score: 2) by deimios on Friday August 23 2019, @05:10AM
This observation was from my home country, from the shithole of Europe. Didn't see a centrist government in the last 20 years.