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posted by janrinok on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the That's-Amore! dept.

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:


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by aiwarrior on Thursday August 22 2019, @07:30AM (11 children)

    by aiwarrior (1812) on Thursday August 22 2019, @07:30AM (#883504) Journal

    > M5S were afraid of salvini stealing the scene instead of presenting thselves as the more level head
    Conte did. I heard the speech from a right wing leaning newspaper and even them noted that Conte has been relatively patient while Salvini tries to his numbers all the time. His Rosary/Chaplet(I do not know the word for Terço in English) in the senate by the side of Conte was pathetic.

    Salvini is a Mussolini. He was a freaking Padanian Communist, so a professional agitator. He still is a true National Socialist, all with his big national projects. It is extremely disappointing that a major country can see anything in such a low life.

    To give USians context. Trump has some borderline racist ideas, but when push comes to shove he stands by his logic of the deal. He is actually more predicable if you see the logic through the deal making cowboy. One may not like it but it is in the rules, and he follows it. This Salvini fellow is all about mob power, a-la Mussolini and black shirts. If not for the EU, i have no doubt he would make a coup. This is the kind of snake.

    Of course Salvini is just the consequence not the cause. The migration problem was and is extremely unfair to Italy because as they are closest, like Greece, they take the brunt of the refugees. European solidarity was nowhere to be seen. Even my mother shares this opinion: We paid Turkey to deal with the refugees, yet we shitted on Italy. Salvini is our reward.

    I support EU project dearly. It is the reason i can live in another country easily and safely. But the German and France grip on these kind of issues is disgusting and may lead to huge issue with Italy. Also, we need to stop pretending we are all nice and good and go nation building to the north Africa. YEah I know this has not worked out well for the US, but US went nation building in freaking Iraq and Vietnam. We are talking about cutting the crap and invest there and *force* a state to exist, even if by violence. I am pretty sure it would be more stable than what we are brewing.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday August 22 2019, @10:37AM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday August 22 2019, @10:37AM (#883538) Journal

    >Conte did
    Conte USED TO. Then when Salvini tried a timid step back he went along with the crisis. Big mistake.

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by loonycyborg on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:15PM (9 children)

    by loonycyborg (6905) on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:15PM (#883594)

    Volumes of refugees from middle east are so small compared to population density of European countries such as Italy that the whole refugee thing being a political issue cannot be caused by anything other but casual racism among European population. And only one kind of people can be casually racist: those who happen to be jerks and dolts at the same time. Public policy shaped by interests of such people would make life worse for pretty much everyone.

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:45PM (7 children)

      by Bot (3902) on Thursday August 22 2019, @01:45PM (#883606) Journal

      You are not considering demographics and the tendency of the previous governments to have natives finance and immigrants live on welfare. Plus, you believe official numbers. Plus you don't even notice the commies who switched already from "they are an insignificant percentage" to "we need to accomodate their customs, there are too many of them to ignore theit instances".

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      • (Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:50PM (6 children)

        by loonycyborg (6905) on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:50PM (#883641)

        According to wikipedia entire population of italy is 60m and syria 18m. Just by how many billions wrong are official demographics? With this population imbalance it's more likely that italy will impair syria's cultural norms with their sheer numbers than other way around.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @07:39PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @07:39PM (#883768)

          Don't logic with Bot, it is incapable. Irony as usual with RWNJs.

        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 23 2019, @03:19AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 23 2019, @03:19AM (#883906)

          If you think it is Syrians coming in mass to Italy, you're mistaken. There's an invasion of surplus population from north and west Africa, not under political repression, just purely economically interested to work (or be) in Europe.

          Do-gooders had been doing the coyotes' work for them, picking up people in rust buckets at sea and delivering them into Italy. That pipeline was making it attractive for even more people to try and come over, until Italy began imposing criminal sanctions on the do-gooders to the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the mainstream media.

          • (Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday August 24 2019, @09:04PM

            by Bot (3902) on Saturday August 24 2019, @09:04PM (#884905) Journal

            When the troll is factually correct.

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        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday August 23 2019, @10:01AM (2 children)

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 23 2019, @10:01AM (#884011) Journal

          According to wikipedia entire population of italy is 60m and syria 18m.

          According to Wikipedia, the population of North Africa, the countries of Africa which border on the Mediterranean, is somewhere around 190m, which is a bit less manageable a number. Having said that, I suspect Bot is more concerned about the presence of Islamic cooties than the raw numbers of people involved.

          • (Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Friday August 23 2019, @10:35AM (1 child)

            by loonycyborg (6905) on Friday August 23 2019, @10:35AM (#884024)

            Seems most of them are concentrated in Egypt which has 90m alone. And Egypt doesn't seem to be singled out as major source of immigration. Probably locals love their Nile too much to leave.

            • (Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:04PM

              by aiwarrior (1812) on Saturday August 24 2019, @07:04PM (#884865) Journal

              You people on the other side of the pond see nothing. Do you think it is Syria? Lol. There are convoys all the way from Cote-de-Ivoir.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @05:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @05:15PM (#883719)

      There's nothing morally wrong about a people wanting to keep the race/culture/family they have built in tact and not turned into dhimmis in their own goddamned country by hordes of invading retards. It's clear you have been brainwashed with anti-goyim "Racism" propaganda.