ROME (ITALY) – Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is close to stepping down and to later form a new government, which can count on a wider majority, national dailies reported on Monday.
According to the La Repubblica newspaper, Conte said, “My aim is to find an agreement that gives a clear political perspective to the government until the end of the term.”
After surviving a vote in the Senate on Tuesday, Conte made appeals to centrist and unaligned Senate lawmakers outside the coalition to team with his minority government’s ranks, however, few have responded.
The premier needs a majority to push through legislation to deal with one of Europe’s worst coronavirus epidemics and the economic crisis it has led to.
