A Senate vote on the schedule for
the government crisis will show a "possible" accord, ex premier
Matteo Renzi said in a press conference ahead of the vote in the
Upper House Tuesday.
The Senate is set to schedule a vote of no confidence in
Premier Giuseppe Conte called by the anti-migrant Euroskeptic
League party.
Former Democratic Party (PD) leader Renzi said "I decided to
make an appeal to the political forces which has the possibility
of being met today".
"I will not give alibis to anyone to break the accord that
the (Senate) schedule will show to be possible this evening".
Renzi said the "parliamentary arithmetic" in the Senate will
show that the majority of Senators is not with League leader
Matto Salvini, who pulled the plug on a 14-month government
alliance with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) by
calling for the vote of no confidence in Conte.
Asked if the PD would come out against a possible
'institutional government', Renzi said "the PD has opened up" to
the possibility of such a government with the M5S and others and
was debating that hypothesis.
Renzi told the press conference that the PD has "definitely
opened" to an agreement for an institutional government with the
M5S to last the remainder of the legislative term, until 2023.
When asked by a reporter what would happen if the PD said no
to an agreement for an institutional government, Renzi said: "I
see that the PD has definitely opened, that talks are ongoing".
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