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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to resign amid stagnant COVID-19 economy
Italy’s embattled Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is resigning, a move seen as gamble to get a fresh mandate from the President to try and forge a more viable coalition Government.
Key points:
- Mr Conte has led a long-bickering centre-left coalition for 16 months
- Before that he headed a Government with the populist 5-Star Movement
- President Sergio Mattarella can accept the resignation and then ask the premier to try to assemble a more solid coalition
Mr Conte survived two confidence votes in Parliament last week but crucially lost his absolute majority in the Senate with the defection of a centrist ally, ex-prime minister Matteo Renzi.
That hobbled Mr Conte’s government’s effectiveness in the middle of the pandemic, with devastating effect for…
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