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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) by janrinok on Thursday August 22 2019, @06:13AM (4 children)
At least the submission we received was in English - a prerequisite for any submission - so less work than has sometimes been the case. Just delete all the editorialising, go to the original source and not the secondhand story, and extract the information for the story.
But I was able to keep the dept contents.....
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday August 22 2019, @06:26AM (3 children)
"When the Fine Article hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore! When the political spin makes you think you had too much gin, that's aristarchus!"
Saved the dept. line. A modest compensation for all the work that Soylentils do to submit content not scrapped by bots.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday August 22 2019, @06:55AM (2 children)
It's 'scraped' by bots, not scrapped.
Bots are used by our community to select stories on IRC for publication. A large proportion of the subs that we receive are submitted by community members this way and are therefore processed by bots. Exec, MrPlow, Arthur_T_Knackerbracket, and upstart are all bots which enable the community to submit stories quickly and easily. 34 of the current 45 submissions (75%) were processed by software to get to the submissions page. Without them we would not have enough submissions for a single day.
We try to make it easy for people to make submissions. Are you advocating that we return to the quill and parchment as the preferred method of submission?
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday August 22 2019, @07:46AM (1 child)
Sorry, from my perspective, it is hard to tell the difference.
I propose carved marble tablets. Takes some time to do, giving the submitter time to ponder whether the submission is really worth the trouble.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday August 22 2019, @07:58AM
I'm in favour of this - perhaps it will reduce the number of alt-right submissions that we get from a certain community member.... (very large grin)!