Italy PM Conte to resign tomorrow.
(twitter.com)
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Okay, enlighten us about the previous time it happened, to the Italian PM specifically. What year?
2019 - and it was the same guy that’s resigning now. The one before that resigned in 2018. Italy has had more than 60 governments since WWII, this really is nothing out of the ordinary.
What is extraordinary is that it is happening in multiple countries around the world.
You're right that each resignation in isolation is nothing remarkable. It's the simultaneous resignations in multiple countries that is noteworthy.
Yeah, Italy is one of the best examples of why the popular vote is a bad plan. Viva la republica!
No govern actually elected, was really elected by the people. Both parties ( well more them 2 in Italy) didn't get the majority, to avoid having new elections, the 2 groups Who received more votes, agreed to form a coalition. Salvini and Di Maio made an Accord. For some time Salvini and Conte(part of di Maio party) shared the premier position, then Salvini saw that things weren't going so well in the country and that the 5 stelle(di Maio party) was stopping too many reforms that la lega(Salvini) wanted approved. They weren't really ruling together. Salvini then tried remove Conte, but was outsmarted, and now we are in the present situation. The people didn't vote for any of them with enough votes to be in Power but they still are.
Yes, you're right. I was being overly glib. They aren't a direct democracy. Even so, the volatile and frequent swings in Italy make our form of democratic republic, with more checks between the popular vote and the control of government, look good by comparison.
1998, 2000, 2008, 2011 (Berlusconi PM)
Conte was already threatening resignation back in 2019
Edit: Conte actually RESIGNED in 2019 but was reinstated
As European I'm quite up to date with EU
What about Renzi? Why he in trouble?