Italy's Conte struggles to secure support in Senate showdown
Efforts by Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte to build a new majority in parliament after a junior partner quit his coalition floundered at the weekend as several centrist lawmakers rejected his overtures.
Earlier, Conte's coalition partner, the leader of the party "Italia Viva" Matteo Renzi, called for radical changes to plans to reboot the economy and demanded that Conte cede his control over the secret services. Conte last month said he was prepared to confront Renzi in parliament, and challenged him to abandon the coalition.
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