Italian PM faces senate test as pandemic rages

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will on Tuesday face a vote of confidence in parliament, seeking the Senate’s support for his teetering government as it battles a deadly coronavirus pandemic. Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addresses on January 18, 2021 the lower house of parliament at Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome, seeking a show of support with lawmakers ahead of a crucial vote in the upper Senate the following day. (Photo by GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE / POOL / AFP) The ruling coalition has been on the brink of collapse since former premier Matteo Renzi withdrew his Italia Viva party last week, depriving Conte of his majority in the upper chamber. Conte, who since 2018 has...