(ANSA) – ROME, JAN 29 – President Sergio Mattarella on Friday
gave Lower House Speaker Roberto Fico an “exploratory mandate”
to see if it is possible to form a new government based on the
same coalition that backed outgoing Premier Giuseppe Conte’s
executive.
Conte quit as premier on Tuesday after ex-premier Matteo Renzi’s
Italia Viva (IV) party triggered a crisis pf government in the
middle of the COVID-19 pandemic by pulling its support for the
government.
Fico is set to get back to Mattarella by Tuesday after talks.
(ANSA).