The decision to resign from Mr. Conte comes before a vote in the upper house on Wednesday that he risked losing, which would have forced his resignation.
This vote was motivated by the resignation of the small Italia Viva party of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi from the coalition of Mr. Conte, stripping him of his majority in the Italian Senate.
Mr Renzi blasted Mr Conte’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and said he was leaving government to force a reset on how the country’s recovery is being handled. (ER: notice the word ‘reset’ …)
If Mr. Conte is not in a position, after his resignation, to form a new majority, then Mr. Mattarella will ask the leaders of Italian political parties to find a solution without him, which means that Italy would have a new Prime minister to fight the pandemic.
Another possibility would be to form a broader coalition of “national unity” between the current coalition parties and the right-wing opposition, which could be led by a technocratic prime minister with a mandate to pull Italy out of the crisis. current.
New general elections, which only the Italian president has the power to call, are considered unlikely at this stage due to the difficulty of organizing them during the pandemic.
We’re not entirely sure what is happening here. We remind readers that Matteo Renzi along with Barack Obama have been discovered to be behind the sabotage of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential elections. See Italygate, Part 2: Obama and Renzi Accused of Being Masterminds of US Electoral Fraud. Yet it is Renzi who gets to be the lead voice against Conte for his alleged mishandling of the ‘pandemic’. On this reckoning, many PMs could fall for similar incompetence. Is Conte being the fall guy for something else not stated? But then he plans to come back anyway …What’s REALLY behind this circus?
Italian Premier To Resign As He Plots Latest Political Comeback
Soon, Italy will be heading toward its its 132nd federal government in roughly 160 years as PM Giuseppe Conte, who led Europe’s third biggest economy through its most recent debt crisis, while also setting Italy on the path toward closer cooperation with China, appears to be finito – at least for now.
Despite barely surviving a handful of confidence votes, the 56-year-old leader’s time as premier and leader of Italy’s council of ministers is coming to a close. According to a government statement, Conte will resign next week to avoid a damaging defeat in the Senate, as he maneuvers to try and return for another round of leadership, combating Italians who are maneuvering against him.
On Tuesday, Conte is expected to preside over a cabinet meeting at 0900 in Rome and then head to President Sergio Mattarella’s office where he will formally step down.
The idea is that by preemptively offering his resignation to Mattarella, who oversees the formation of ruling coalitions, Conte will then likely be asked to take another shot at assembling another government, according to officials who asked not to be named discussing confidential deliberations.
The Five Star Movement, the biggest force in the current parliament, along with other lawmakers, are trying to trigger vote in the Italian Senate later this week.
However, the parliamentary math does not add up. The latest gambit for Conte’s political maneuvering stands to benefit from the fact that Five Star will plunge in the polls, and the party stands to lose the most if the government collapses and Mattarella decides early elections are unavoidable.
Earlier this month, Conte stepped down after losing his governing majority in Italy’s Senate, following a fight with a small coalition ally over how to spend massive funds offered by the European Union to help Italy recover from the impact of the pandemic. His resignation has triggered a search for a new governing majority, but if none can be found, then the EU’s third-biggest economy is likely to hold elections in the coming months.
The breakdown of Italy’s left-leaning government shows that Europe’s political challenges of recent years, including the fragmentation of the political landscape and the rise of anti-establishment parties haven’t gone away, despite the pressure that the pandemic is putting on European politicians to work together across party lines.
Analysts who spoke with Bloomberg insisted that Conte’s push for a “unity government” is his best option, officials said. Yet, it has long been said that Renzi and Conte have a long-festering dislike of each other and have been ill at ease in a coalition of mutual convenience.
On the other hand, Conte could seek to forge a new coalition of centrists – really, center-right politicians including unaffiliated lawmakers and former PM Silvio Berlusconi, who leads the center-right Forza Italia.
Here’s the full list of Italian leaders dating back to the Italian revolution back in the 1860s.
If Conte pulls off this maneuver on Monday and Tuesday, he will kick off his third government as PM. And just like that, the non-career politician pressed into service by a group of ideologically opposed anti-establishment parties will cement his reputation as the only man who could lead Italy, because he’s the only man who doesn’t want the job.
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