After Government Falls, Italy Must Navigate Pandemic on âCruise Controlâ
The country is no stranger to political chaos. But it now faces the unsettling prospect of going rudderless during the coronavirus crisis.
Outside the Quirinale Palace in Rome where Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte offered his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella on Tuesday.Credit...Riccardo Antimiani/EPA, via Shutterstock
ROME â The Italian prime minister resigned on Tuesday and triggered the collapse of the government.
This sort of thing happens all the time in Italy. But the return to a familiar state of political instability has never happened in the midst of a pandemic that has seared the country so deeply.