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Italian government collapses after the right turns chaos into crisis
Will the Democrats team up with Five Star to deny Salvini the premiership, asks CJ ATKINS

ITALY’S anti-immigrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has effectively forced Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to resign from office in a scheme aimed at elevating his extremist right-wing League party to power and installing himself in the premier’s office.

Conte, a political independent who has headed a coalition between Salvini’s League and the anti-Establishment Five Star Movement since June 2018, resigned on Tuesday. 

In an hour-long speech in the Italian Senate, with Salvini sitting next to him, Conte berated the League leader for undermining the government from within.

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