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- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte plans to offer his resignation at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The government announced this.
- The former center-left coalition hopes that the head of state will once again assign Conte the task of forming a government.
- Conte narrowly won two votes of confidence in parliament last week. But his coalition is shaking.
The government announced that Conte wanted to convene the cabinet on Tuesday morning. There he will declare his willingness to present his resignation to the head of state. Then he wants to go to President Sergio Mattarella. In Rome, it is expected that the former partners will probably want to try to form a new expanded government alliance. Lawyer Conte, 56, could be back on top.
However, that decision is in the hands of Matarella. As president, you have an important role to play in times of crisis. If Conte cannot convince him, he can hire another politician to form a new government. If no majorities can be found, you can get new elections this spring.
No one can predict which scenario is more likely, says SRF correspondent Franco Battel in Rome. “One thing is clear: Mattarella doesn’t want to waste any more valuable time. It urges a quick decision, because the Conte government has been powerless and without ideas for weeks due to the crisis. “And this in the middle of the pandemic.
Dispute over EU funds for a pandemic
Conte’s ruling alliance since September 2019 was broken on January 13 with the departure of the small Italia Viva party of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The background was a dispute over the use of EU aid funds in the corona pandemic.
Since then, the non-partisan prime minister and his partners, the five-star movement, the Social Democrats (PD) and a small left-wing party, have tried to find new supporters in parliament. The weakened coalition threatens a symbolic defeat in a vote on judicial policy in the Senate, the smaller of the two houses of parliament, on Wednesday.
