EXPLAINER: Italy faces a political crisis amid a pandemic thetelegraph.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetelegraph.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Former prime minister Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva party is "untrustworthy", the leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) said on Thursday, indicating he would not want to forge a new alliance with it.
ROME, Jan 14 Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was battling today to keep his government afloat after a key coalition partner withdrew, sparking a political crisis in the middle of a raging pandemic. Lawmakers on all sides demanded he set out what will happen next following the dramatic.