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Rome (AP) - Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wants to offer his resignation in a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Then he wanted to go to Head of State Sergio Mattarella with his plan.
The government in Rome announced this.
Conte had narrowly won two votes of confidence in parliament last week.
Nevertheless, his minority government has not had a stable majority in parliament since then - especially not in the second chamber, the Senate.
On January 13, the alliance that had ruled since September 2019 was broken by the departure of the small party Italia Viva of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
The background was a dispute about the use of EU aid funds in the corona pandemic.
Since then, the non-party prime minister and his partners - the Five Star Movement, the Social Democrats (PD) and a small left party - have tried to find new supporters in parliament.
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According to media reports on Monday, the previous center-left coalition is hoping that Conte will once again receive the order to form a new government from the head of state.
After the confidence votes won last week, Conte's government already faced the next hurdle this week.
In a vote on judicial policy in the Senate, the smaller of the two chambers of parliament, she was threatened with a symbolic defeat in the middle of the week.
However, Conte's resignation does not have to mean that he will disappear from top Italian politics.
In Rome it was expected that the old partners would try to form a new, expanded government alliance.
The 56-year-old lawyer could be at the top again.
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However, fundamental decisions are in the hands of Head of State Mattarella.
It plays an important role in times of crisis.
After the end of the government, he can appoint a politician to form a new government.
If no majorities can be found, he can obtain an early election.
This is what the right-wing bloc parties are calling for.
Above all, Lega boss Matteo Salvini expects to be able to set up a government himself in an alliance with the conservative Forza Italia and the right-wing party Fratelli d'Italia.
After Conte became aware of his plans to resign, the head of the Social Democrats, Nicola Zingaretti, confirmed that he would continue to hold on to Conte.
"With Conte for a new government that is clearly pro-European and supported by a broad parliamentary base that guarantees credibility and stability in order to meet the great challenges facing Italy," he wrote on Twitter.
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