Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte canceled a planned trip to the World Econo...
FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte arrives to attend the European Union leaders summit, in Brussels, Belgium December 13, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Pool/File Photo
The prime minister’s office gave no detailed reason for the cancellation of the trip but said Conte would be remaining in Rome to work on “urgent issues”. His resignation had added to growing political uncertainty in Italy ahead of local elections at the weekend where the right-wing opposition League party is hoping for big gains to add weight to its demands for new national elections.
“The party’s already said it was committed to the stability of the government. So nothing will change,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg TV.
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