Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announces his resignation in the country's Senate on Aug. 20 as League party leader Matteo Salvini gestures beside him. Salvini sought to force an early election, but his gambit might not pay off.
The League tried to force an early election by scuttling the ruling coalition. But some political horse trading could thwart the right-wing party's aims -- and shut it out of a new government....
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