ROME: Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) amid the collapse of the 14-month-old populist government, raising the possibility of new elections in the fall that could bring to power the anti-migrant Interior minister who engineered Conte’s downfall.

Addressing the Senate, Conte blasted Matteo Salvini for setting in motion a “dizzying spiral of political and financial instability” by essentially pulling the plug on the government.

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