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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte also won the vote of confidence in the Senate on Tuesday, but lost an absolute majority. This avoids the need to form a new government or even a new election amid the crown and economic crisis. However, without an absolute majority, governing becomes more difficult for the coalition led by the 5-star movement and the social democratic Partitio Democratico (PD) and supported by split parties.
Conte won 156 of the 321 votes in the Senate, the upper house of parliament. The result, with 140 votes against and 16 abstentions, was closer than some allies expected. 161 votes would have been necessary for an absolute majority. Decisive for the victory were the abstentions of the deputies of Italia Viva of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Because in the Senate Contes coalition, even with the then separatist center party, Italia Viva had only a very small majority.
Renzi removed the two ministers of Italia Viva from the cabinet on Wednesday of last week in the dispute over Conte’s policy in the crown and the economic crisis. The coalition broke up after 17 months. Conte asked for the vote of confidence and also sought the support of members of the Liberal and Centro spectrum who belong to the opposition. In the House of Representatives he won Monday’s vote with 321 to 259 votes. The approval there was higher than expected and gives Conte an absolute majority.
Unstable government
The nonpartisan lawyer has been in office since June 2018 and has already survived a coalition change in September 2019. Conte Now he can continue his government course, but without the support of Italia Viva he will always have to depend on emergency aides in the upper house. This could make your government unstable. (what, Reutters)
