The Prime Minster of Italy today announced his resignation
after a premiership of 15 months, after the far-right anti-migrant Trumpist
League party, the junior partner in the government coalition, announced earlier
this month that it would offer a no-confidence no motion. The motion against the anti-establishment
populist party-led Government would likely have been blocked by the ruling
party and the main center-left party, but the uncertainty had nevertheless
triggered a government crisis.
The Prime
Minister blasted the League party leader, who is also Deputy Prime Minister and
Interior Minister, for triggering the crisis for trying to capitalize in a
surge in the polls, using the anti-establishment populists’ opposition to the
high-speed rail line from Turin to Lyon , France Italy must offer on
bonds because of the uncertainty it creates, weaken the Italian
Republic in negotiations with the
European Union, necessitate reopening the budget and make it more likely that Italy could not
avoid an increase in the sales tax. The
Prime Minister criticized the far-right leader for using religious symbols as
he cracked down on immigration and for refusing to answer questions in
Parliament about the attempt by the Russian Federation to finance his
party through secret energy profits. The
League is xenophobic, but supports Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin and aligns
itself with other far-right international leaders, whom Putin usually supports.
With the
collapse of Italy’s first all-populist Government, the President of the
Republic, if he accepts the premier’s resignation, will decide whether to give
the Prime Minister a second mandate to try to form a new government between the
two parties, or allow talks between the ruling anti-establishment party and the
center-left to try to overcome their considerable differences to form a
government. Otherwise, there will be
early elections in the fall. The premier
would remain as a caretaker in the interim.
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