Italian PM Conte Resigns Know All About It

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What has happened?

Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned in an escalation of the political instability that has enveloped the country as it battles both the Covid-19 pandemic and a brutal recession.
On Tuesday morning Mr Conte held a cabinet meeting to inform his ministers of his decision and then met President Sergio Mattarella, to hand in his resignation.

Conte’s resignation comes after weeks of tension within Italy’s coalition government,
Which is composed of an uneasy partnership between the populist Five Star movement (M5S), the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and Italia Viva, a much smaller centre-left party led by former prime minister Matteo Renzi.

Conte himself isn’t a member of any of the three parties, but was selected by M5S as an independent technocrat after the party received the biggest share of the vote in Italy’s last elections in 2018.
Renzi has criticized Conte’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and especially his post-virus economic recovery plan, which he calls a missed opportunity for structural reform.
Renzi – who attempted to make sweeping changes during his own time in power, with limited success.
As well as personal ambition, many suspect – led Renzi to withdraw his party’s support for the government earlier this month.
The move cost the ruling coalition 18 crucial votes in the upper house of parliament, the Senate, without which it no longer has a majority.
The government still has enough support in the lower house of parliament, the Chamber of Deputies,
But since all legislation has to be approved in both houses, there was no longer any guarantee that Conte’s coalition would be able to pass new laws.
Instead he resigned preemptively.
It’s a strategic move, because now he can make a stronger case that he should be allowed to form a new government with himself at the helm.

Conte did indeed resign once before, in 2019.
After the 2018 elections he started out at the head of a different coalition government, made up of the M5S and the rightwing populist League party.
That partnership broke down after around a year.
But Conte strategically resigned then, too, scrapping that coalition and freeing up the M5S to form a new coalition with the centre-left and cut out the League altogether.
So in fact Conte has headed two governments already and is hoping to lead a third, which is why you’ll see Italian media referring to the possibility of “Conte ter”, or ‘Conte Three‘.

President Mattarella “has invited the government to stay in office in a caretaker capacity” until a new solution is found, his office said.
That means the current cabinet will continue to run the country, but they can’t make any significant decisions.

Q) The country of Italy is enclosed with number of seas. Which of the following seas do not surround the country of Italy?