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Italy s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks during the closing press conference of the seventh MED7 Mediterranean countries summit, on September 10, 2020, in Porticcio, Corsica. (Ludovic Marin/Pool/AFP)
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announces he will resign tomorrow, in what media reports say is an attempt to build a new government, after weeks of turmoil.
He has called a cabinet meeting for tomorrow morning when he “will inform the ministers of his desire to go to the Quirinale (President Sergio Mattarella’s office) to resign,” his office says.
Media reports suggest he will seek a new mandate to form a new government to run Italy as it battles the coronavirus pandemic, which has left more than 85,000 people dead in the country and crippled the economy.
Italian Prime Minister to resign on Tuesday after cabinet meeting
Reuters |
Published: 01.25.21 , 20:51
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will hand in his resignation to the head of state on Tuesday after convening the cabinet to inform ministers of his decision, the cabinet office said.
Conte hopes President Sergio Mattarella will give him a mandate to form a new government with broader backing in parliament, political sources said.
Conte lost his absolute majority in the upper house Senate last week when a junior partner, the Italia Viva party headed by former premier Matteo Renzi, quit in a row over the government s handling of the coronavirus crisis and economic recession.
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