Italy's prime minister said he would resign, causing the collapse of the country's most nationalist and dysfunctional government in decades.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 10:26 AM EST
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte chose to quit before a confidence vote. Parties will now scramble to form a new majority or face elections.
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The demise of the coalition between the hard-right, anti-migrant League party, led by Mr. Salvini, and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement thrust Italy into a renewed period of crisis and political chaos only 445 days after the unlikely partners took power.
During the government’s short tenure, the nationalist-populist coalition struck fear into the heart of the European establishment, with its antagonism toward the European Union, its flouting of the bloc’s budgetary laws, its demonization of migrants, and its embrace of President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia and his strongman politics.
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