Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has won a crucial confidence vote in Parliament’s lower house, hanging on to power after a junior partner quit his coalition and sparked a political crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Conte lost his coalition majority last week with the defection of cabinet ministers belonging to former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s small but key Italia Viva party, a decision that followed weeks of criticism of the government’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following an appeal to opposition and non-aligned lawmakers for “clear backing”, Conte’s government won on Monday the lower-house vote by 321 to 259, a wider-than-expected margin that gave it an absolute majority in the 629-seat chamber.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered a lockdown across the country for the upcoming holidays.
Explaining it was not an easy decision, Conte told reporters that experts were seriously worried that there would be a jump in cases over Christmas, BBC reported.
Italy wasn t the only European country to tighten restrictions over the holidays the UK and Germany have both announced heightened coronavirus restrictions.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered a lockdown across the country for the upcoming holidays.
The government is set to implement red-zone restrictions, meaning that Italians across the country must stay in their homes except to go to work, or for medical or emergency reasons. The rules allow limited home visits, with no more than two adult guests permitted in homes.
The pandemic has accelerated systemic changes that were apparent before its inception. The fault lines that emerged in 2020 now appear as critical crossroads in 2021. The Davos Agenda will help leaders choose innovative and bold solutions to stem the pandemic and drive a robust recovery over the next year, it added.
Italy s PM Conte survives to face confidence test in Senate
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte s coalition government has survived a vote in Italy s Chamber of Deputies, ahead of a bigger test in the upper house. Conte had urged lawmakers to unite against nationalist tendencies.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte faces a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte survived a confidence vote in the country s lower house on Monday, although his main test is expected on Tuesday when the upper house, the Senate, cast their ballot.
Conte s government won the lower-house vote by 321 to 259 a margin that was wider than expected.