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Italy鈥檚 embattled Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, is likely to tender his resignation, a day after three main coalition allies snubbed him in a Senate confidence vote. The collapse of his broadly popular national unity government, formed eighteen months ago to tackle the pandemic, is likely to precipitate a snap election.

Lia Quartapelle is a lawmaker and foreign affairs spokesperson for the centre-left Democratic Party in Italy. She told Newsday: 鈥淚 am really angry, I am really disappointed鈥�Draghi鈥檚 government has shown that Italy can be different, that it can count in the world, that we can have a good government working for the people and suddenly, in a matter of hours, three parties squandered all of this.鈥�

(Picture: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi looks on after delivering his speech to the Italian Senate, on July 20, 2022 in Rome, Italy. Credit: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)