Rome, Italy:
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte submitted his resignation Tuesday to President Sergio Mattarella, in a bid to type a new, stronger government.
The president accepted the resignation and “reserves the right to decide (what to do next) and invited the government to stay in office in a caretaker capacity”, Mattarella’s workplace stated.
Mattarella, the ultimate arbiter of Italian political crises, stated he would get started a round of discussions with party leaders on the way forward on Wednesday afternoon. Talks are anticipated to final till Thursday.
Conte is anticipated to seek a new mandate for what would be his third consecutive government in 3 years, but this depends on his potential to expand his parliamentary majority.
He can at the moment count on the populist Five Star Movement, the centre-left Democratic Party and the smaller sized leftist Free and Equals party.
Ex-premier Matteo Renzi’s Italia Viva, which pulled out of the coalition two weeks ago, as properly as opposition centrists, are beneath stress to switch sides and assistance a new government — but not necessarily with Conte at the helm.
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