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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte intends to hand in his resignation to the president on Tuesday after a morning cabinet meeting to inform his ministers, according to his office. The prime minister, who has been in office since June 2018, hopes President Sergio Mattarella will give him a mandate to form a new government with broader backing in Parliament, according to media reports. Conte lost his majority in the upper-house Senate last week when the centrist Italia Viva party led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi quit the country’s coalition government in a dispute over its handlin...

Giuseppe Conte survived parliamentary confidence vote last week but failed to secure majority in Senate Rome: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced he will resign Tuesday, in what media reports said was an attempt to build a new government after weeks of political turmoil. He called a cabinet meeting for 9:00am (0800 GMT) when he "will inform the ministers of his desire to go to the Quirinale (President Sergio Mattarella's office) to resign", his office said. Media reports suggest Conte will seek a mandate to form a new government to run Italy as it battles the coronavirus pandemic...

0 shares 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 sug...