Italian MPs delay no-confidence vote in PM Conte
Max Civili
Press TV, Rome
Italy's upper house voted against tabling a no confidence motion in Premier Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday or in the coming days.
Italian senators called backed from their holiday - opted to summon Conte to parliament on August 20 to respond to the crisis facing his coalition government.
The interior minister and leader of the League Matteo Salvini had pulled the plug on a 14-month alliance with Luigi Di Maio's Five Star Movement last week calling for snap elections.
The two ruling parties are divided over how things should proceed. While the Five Star Movement is reportedly trying to form a new alliance with opposition group, the Democratic Party, the League is wanting things to move fast so early elections can be held in the autumn.
Salvini intends to revive his alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and other far-right parties.
According to the polls, these three parties can reach together up to 50 percent of the vote. On the other side, the Five Star Movement, some members of the democratic party, the small leftwing Free and Equal and a number of autonomist parties seem to be ready to form a caretaker government to pass the 2020 budget law and a reform cutting the number of lawmakers, taking care of ordinary business until elections are held next year.
Tensions between Salvini’s party and the Five Star Movement have escalated in recent weeks over tax cuts and a multi-billion-dollar railway line. Salvini had threatened to pull his support for the coalition government if his demands were not met.
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