Italy: Giuseppe Conte announces his resignation as Prime Minister

He has withstood the political crisis unleashed in recent days, weeks, in Italy as best he could, but in the end the transalpine tradition has been able to with Giuseppe Conte, who has already announced that this Tuesday he is resigning as prime minister. “A Council of Ministers has been convened at 9 am in which President Giuseppe Conte will communicate his wish to go to the Quirinal Palace to resign,” reported the Chigi Palace, the official seat of the Italian Prime Minister. Until now, Conte had come being the prime minister as a link between the two partners of the Italian Government, the populist 5 Star Movement, and the Democratic Party of Matteo Renzi, who gave the starting signal to the current political crisis that, in reality, does not mean that I’m going to take the aforementioned Conte. From now on a period very typical of Italy opens: instability. One of the first to react to the resignation announcement was the opposition leader, Matteo Salvini, of the far-right Liga party, who has called for early elections. then we will have five years with a serious and legitimate government and parliament, not elected in the Palace, but elected by the Italians, “said Salvini in a message recorded on video and broadcast on social networks. However, the parties that support the Government of Conte – Five Star Movement, of the Democratic Party and of Free and Equal (LeU) – have already pointed to the formation of a new majority for a third executive with Conte at the helm, known in the press as ‘Conte ter’.«New inevitable majority» Thus, the secretary general of the Democratic Party, Nicola Zingaretti, has pointed out on Twitter that they are committed to a «broad and pro-European government with a broad parliamentary base, which guarantees credibility and stability to face the great challenges facing Italy» Along the same lines, the Five Star Movement, Conte’s main support, considers that the formation of a new majority “is the only solution to the crisis.” «The transition to the so-called ‘Conteter’ is now inevitable and is the only result of this dire crisis. A necessary step for the enlargement of the majority, “said M5S parliamentary spokesmen, Davide Crippa and Ettore Licheri, in a statement released before the announcement of Conte’s resignation was confirmed. From the Italian conservative party Forza Italia, its leader, Silvio Berlusconi, has raised the option of a government of “national unity” or, as an alternative, the convening of early elections as a way out of the political crisis in the country, although he has assured that for the moment there have been no contacts. exit from the Government of Italia Viva, the party of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, has left the 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the Democratic Party (PD) as the only partners in a coalition that last week managed to overcome motions of confidence in the The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. However, this week – on Wednesday or Thursday – a new vote was scheduled in the Senate, where the annual report of the Minister will be put to a vote. erio of Justice. To overcome this obstacle, the Government once again needed external support that it would not have guaranteed.