Italy’s PM Conte resigns following pandemic criticism, coalition crisis
Italy’s Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation as Prime Minister today, in order to try forming a new coalition government. A decision coming amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 85,000 people in the peninsula and crippled its economy, as FRANCE 24’s Seema Gupta reports from Rome.
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