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Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses

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

aristarchus has prompted this story:

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: -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)

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    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.

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  • (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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