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- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte plans to offer his resignation at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. This was announced by the government of Rome.
- According to media reports, the former center-left coalition hopes that Conte can once again receive the order from the head of state to form a new government.
- Conte had narrowly won two votes of confidence in parliament last week. But his minority government has been on an unstable parliamentary base ever since.
The government said Conte wanted to convene the cabinet at nine in the morning. There he will declare his willingness to present his resignation to the head of state. Then he wants to go to the president.
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.
The fundamental decisions for this, however, are in the hands of the head of state Sergio Mattarella. It plays an important role in times of crisis. After the end of the government, you can appoint a politician to form a new government. If no majorities are found, you can get an early election.
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.
Over the course of this week, the coalition threatened symbolic defeat in a vote on judicial policy in the Senate, the smaller of Rome’s two houses of parliament.
