Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, in Rome on January 15, 2020. -

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Another political crisis is looming in Italy.

The head of government, Giuseppe Conte, tendered his resignation on Tuesday to President Sergio Mattarella, who asked him to expedite current affairs, according to a statement from the Presidency of the Republic.

The Prime Minister, whose coalition was released by a pivotal party, will attempt to form a new government to get the country out of the double economic and health crisis.

The second government formed in September 2019 by Giuseppe Conte - a coalition between the PD (center left) and the 5 Star Movement (M5S, anti-system before coming to power) - comes to an end this Tuesday after 509 days of life.

Giuseppe Conte in the morning a Council of Ministers to inform his government of his imminent resignation, signaling the start of yet another political crisis in Italian political history.

A third government?

Noting Monday of the impossibility of finding a new parliamentary majority after the defection of the small party of the former head of government Matteo Renzi, he went in the wake to present his resignation to the President of the Republic.

Giuseppe Conte nevertheless hopes to obtain a mandate from Sergio Matterella to try to form a new government, his third since 2018, and to implement a plan of more than 200 billion euros supposed to revive the engine of the third economy in the euro zone, cooled by the pandemic which has killed more than 85,000 people in the country.

He should then quickly launch all-out consultations with all Italian political parties, a hunt for consensus that promises to be very complicated.

Because the head of government - a lawyer and law professor very close to the 5 Star Movement, who fell into the political pot somewhat by chance in 2018 - anticipated a scathing political slap in the face in the Senate on Wednesday.

Senators were due to vote on reforms by Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede (M5S), who notably provided for the adoption of new rules for civil and criminal trials, or the abolition of limitation periods after the first conviction.

A vote that loomed like a referendum against the government.

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