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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Italian PM Conte to resign amid crisis with far-right League party
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleItalian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says he will resign, lashing out at far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for pursuing his own interests by pulling the plug on the government coalition.
“I’m ending this government experience here… I will go to the president of the republic to inform him of my resignation,” he says.
“It is irresponsible to initiate a government crisis,” Conte says after Salvini began his efforts to bring down the government in a bid for snap elections he hopes will make him premier.
Conte was speaking following a week of fallout from Salvini’s decision to back out of the alliance on August 8, plunging the eurozone’s third-largest economy into political turmoil.
— AFP
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