Italy`s Conte, `chameleon` with survival instinctEarlier this month he was still polling in the mid-50s ...
(WorldNews Politics)

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte took office with no political experience but has proved remarkably adept at staying in power -- at least so far. After weeks of turmoil in the ruling coalition, Conte resigned on Tuesday to seek a fresh mandate from President Sergio Mattarella to form a new government. It would be the third in a row for the once obscure law professor, who was first appointed at the helm of an unashamedly populist, eurosceptic government in the wake of the 2018 general election. When that collapsed, he cobbled together a coalition on the centre-left, which held until former premier Matteo Renzi withdrew his Italia Viva party on January 13....