Divergent parliamentary party leaders ordered all members of the Senate to suspend their summer recess on Tuesday and meet on their own to decide when to hold a no-confidence vote, which seems bound to lead to the ouster of Prime Minister Konte.
Salvini currently serves as interior minister in a coalition government with the anti-establishment five-star movement. He hopes to take advantage of his soaring poll support to hold a new election, in which he is expected to be elected Prime Minister.
But the Five Star Movement and many lawmakers from the opposition left-wing Democratic Party (PD) are angry at Salvigny's strategy and want to slow his efforts to hold early elections, saying it will undermine key bills and undermine Italy's fragile fiscal situation.
"You'll see that the Italians will pay the Union for stabbing Italy behind their backs," Five Star Movement leader Di Mayo said on Facebook.
Di Mayo denied rumours that he might form an alternative coalition government with former Democratic Prime Minister Lenzi. But in order to delay, both the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party said that Konte should address Parliament on the current crisis on August 20, rather than August 14, as requested by the Alliance Party.
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