The floor of the Senate will vote
on the scheduling of work related to the government crisis at
18:00 on Tuesday, the conference of Upper House whips decided on
Monday.
The crisis was triggered by Deputy Premier and League leader
Matteo Salvini last week calling for a snap election, saying the
ruling majority no longer exists after a dramatic split in votes
over the TAV Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link.
The political parties are divided over how things should
proceed, with the League wanting things to move fast so early
elections can be held in the autumn after it presented a motion
of no-confidence in Premier Giuseppe Conte in the Senate.
The League's former government partners in the 5-Star
Movement and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) do not want
the procedures to be rushed.
PD sources said that they think that around 159 lawmakers
would be willing to vote for the slower schedule on Tuesday,
when Senators who have managed to rush back during the recess
from their fold and the M5S and the mixed group are added up.
That would be more than the 136 that the League could
probably generate with its former, and probably future, allies
in the centre right - Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) and
the rightwing Brothers of Italy (FDI) party.
Under the slower schedule, Conte would not report to
parliament before next week.
Mixed group Senate whip Loredana De Petris said the League,
FI and FDI had asked for the Conte no-confidence motion to be
voted on on Wednesday.
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