Italian Prime Minister Conte offers resignation amid political crisis

[Kailash Kumar]

Italian Prime Minister Conte offers resignation amid political crisis

Conte has tendered his resignation and launched a blistering attack on Salvini. The far-right League withdrew its no confidence motion against the prime minister after being taken to task by nearly every other party.

Elizabeth Schumacher

20.08.2019

Much of Rome held its breath on Tuesday, eyes glued to TVs through the end of the work day, one thing dominating cafe chatter — the end to Italy’s 65th government since World War II.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced he would submit his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella, ending Italy's 14-month-old populist government.

"The current crisis definitely compromises the experience of this government, which stops here," Conte said.

In his speech before the Senate, Conte took aim at his Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, calling him "irresponsible" for engineering a political crisis for "personal and party interests."

Salvini, emboldened by his party’s strong showing in May’s EU elections, has increasingly positioned himself as Italy’s main leader on the world stage.

Two weeks ago, he made the surprise announcement that his far-right League no longer wanted to remain in an alliance with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), presenting a no-confidence vote against Conte and pushing for fresh elections.

Show of support

Braving the punishing August sun in Rome, around 100 M5S supporters camped out in front of the Senate building for hours, chanting "Conte! Conte!" Although the prime minister is technically partyless, he is an M5S man in spirit and many did not want him to resign.

Some were hoping for a new coalition with the center-left Democratic Party (PD). The M5S can be loosely defined as left-leaning, but it has often struggled to define exactly what it stands for, and leader Luigi di Maio has also come out against immigration like Salvini.

The PD is still headed by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has been eyeing a chance for a comeback. A new coalition could save Italy from facing snap elections as early as October.

"Now is our moment, we should form an alliance with the PD and cut Salvini out of the picture," Stefano, one of the demonstrators, told DW.

Vicious circle

But Marco, who works at a bar around the corner from where the protestors were cheering, was less optimistic, saying "it’s wishful thinking…Italian democracy is like this… We’re trapped inside a wheel, no matter how much progress we think we’ve made, we end up right where we started."

This sentiment was echoed by many following Tuesday’s developments. Italy appears to be trapped in a vicious circle in which people expect to be disappointed by their governments, and watch them play right into these expectations. This prompts one more government to collapse and a new one to be elected, and the cycle begins again.

‘Should have stood up to him a long time ago’

Pessimistic PD voter Silvia, 33, said that she was disappointed by what she saw as other parties only standing up to Salvini after he called for a no confidence vote.

"The other parties should have stood up to Salvini a long time ago," she said.

"However, I feel more like they were motivated by his arrogance, rather than because of principles, or his racist speeches."

Polls on Italian news websites have Salvini’s support at 36% to M5S's 18, but it’s not very evident in urban Rome. There was no similar gathering of party loyalists in the center of the Italian capital on Tuesday.

League withdraws no-confidence motion

After Conte's speech, and similar ones by several other prominent lawmakers, the League suddenly revoked its no-confidence motion. Many Italian social media users promptly mocked Salvini for his failed attempt to come out of the crisis looking like the only strong leader in Italy.

Protestors who were not affiliated with M5S, but still vehemently anti-Salvini, were overjoyed to see the interior minister with egg on his face at the end of the day.

"Refugees are dying, and what does he do? He disappears migrants and closes the official refugee camps, forces children and pregnant women to stay on boats off Lampedusa," said middle-aged Mauro, part of a group that claims to have been protesting Salvini nearly every day since he joined the government in June of last year.

"He wants to bring fascism back to Italy, well, hopefully he’ll have his work cut out."

https://www.dw.com/en/italian-prime...-resignation-amid-political-crisis/a-50098258

 

[zectech]

Italy is in bad shape. The lega needs to be isolated like trump needs to be isolated. The 5* movement is almost neo-fascist in the good ol' ways of Mussolini, when he hated Hitler and wanted Hitler dead. While the Lega is a neo-nazis Hitlerite organization that should be banned from Italy if the fascists were in charge. Because that is what fascism is, you ban nazism and jewish communists from forming political parties because they are too dangerous for Italy (Iran does the same thing). Conte is not fascist enough, he was aligned with the enemy of Italy, these neo-nazis Lega thugs, and like Mussolini, you align with your enemy and you generally fall, like Conte did.

Bring back good ol fascism and ban the Lega. The Lega hates native Gypsies, native Italians (Genetic Italians are from the Central and South), the Lega hates Muslims, and hates any migrants.

The Roman Empire was built on fascist ideals (Mussolini was neo-Roman), and welcomed people of all races to Rome and anyone could become a citizen and get free bread and circuses. The Lega hates any memory of Rome and wants to create a celtic regime of hate and oppressing people.

The five star movement is the movement of the people. Lega is filled with only haters.

For those who hate fascism, look at how the West treats women of different view points:

Trump Tells Congresswomen to ‘Go Back’ to the Countries They Came From

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/us/politics/trump-twitter-squad-congress.html

trump wants political enemies gone (dead, deported, silenced), trump is a nazi.

trump in a fascist nation would be banned for being a nazi. Because nazis and fascists are enemies. More than nazis and communists.

On what about this Celtic Italy's hatred of all things Italian and Roman:

Meanwhile, in Italy, Lega Nord (LN) has also taken up the banner of “Celtic culture” as a model of whiteness.

https://daily.jstor.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-celtic/

Whiteness, multiculturalism and nationalist appropriation of Celtic culture: the case of the League of the South and the Lega Nord

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44251029?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

There are hundreds if not thousands of references to this celtic (Northern Italian) hatred ofCentral and Southern Italians (in english, not to mention Italian), who the latter two groups are the real Italians. The Celts correctly isolate themselves as (fake) 'whites'. They are not Roman, nor will ever be Roman. The Lega is the gathering of every neo-nazis in Italy, they should be deported from Italy. Rome was never their capital, they stole the wealth of Central and Southern Italy, then spit on true Italians.

On Italian-ness, that the racist Lega supporters lack.

Italian-ness is found mostly in Central and Southern Italy along with Sicily. Sardinia is native European and does not hate Italy like the northern Lega supporters do. The Sardinians are loyal Italians, who do not put their lack of Italian-ness as the ideal of the state. Crete and Cyprus are more Italian, than the celtic north, who isolated themselves from Italy by hating Southern Italians and wanting Southern Italians deported from Northern Italian cities, that was the start of the Lega Nord, racism against native Italians.

And who were the Romans?

The Romans were descendants of Early European Farmers:

70-80% of Roman DNA comes from Early European Farmers, these were the natives of Europe before the rapefugee celts slaughtered most of the men of Europe.

The rapefugee celts hated every native of Europe, and kill most of them off about 4500 years ago.

The forefathers of Europe: Two thirds of modern European men descend from just THREE Bronze Age leaders

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...n-descended-just-trio-Bronze-Age-leaders.html

The Lega is the continuation of this hatred of natives Europeans (Italians and Greeks).

 

[Nein]

I like how Conte slammed the fat pig called Salvini