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Then Premier Giuseppe Conte, left, talks with Health Minister Roberto Speranza at the Senate, in Rome, on Jan. 19, 2021. The Court of Ministers in Brescia on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, threw out the case against ex-Premier Giuseppe Conte and ex-Health Minister Roberto Speranza, alleging they failed to extend the lockdown to Bergamo and adjacent valleys in the early days of the pandemic, causing unwarranted deaths. Both officials have said they acted according to scientific knowledge and expert opinion available at the time. Conte told RAI state TV that the decision “comforts me.” (Andreas Solaro/Pool via AP)

Italian court throws out case alleging early pandemic mismanagement by ex-premier, ex-minister

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In this Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, file photo, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels. (Yves Herman, Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Conte’s last hurrah? Italy’s ‘simple citizen’ plots return

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE-- Italy's President Sergio Mattarella, left, welcomes reigning European Central Bank President Mario Draghi on the eve of the change at the head of the ECB in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. Italian President Sergio Mattarella has summoned Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at the Quirinale Presidential Palace on Wednesday for talks, after two rounds of talks failed to seal an agreement among parties on a new premiership for the outgoing Giuseppe Conte. (Boris Roessler/Pool Photo via AP)

Italy looks to ‘Super Mario’ Draghi to end political crisis

By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 file photo Premier Giuseppe Conte attends a debate at the Senate prior to a confidence vote, in Rome. The political parties that make up caretaker Premier Giuseppe Conte's collapsed government kept up their squabbling over key policy issues, including European Union pandemic aid, as they struggle to give birth to what would be a revived coalition. President Sergio Mattarella has set Tuesday Feb. 2, 2021 as the deadline for a progress report. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Ex-ECB’s Draghi positioned to lead Italy after politics fail

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

President of the Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico meets the media at the Quirinale presidential palace where Italian President Sergio Mattarella is meeting political parties trying to find a viable solution to the political crisis, in Rome Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned after a key coalition ally pulled his party's support over Conte's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, setting the stage for consultations this week to determine if he can form a third government (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)

Italy’s president: 4 days to see if coalition can be reborn

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A Cuirassier Regiment presidential guard stands behind a window of the Quirinale presidential palace, in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned after a key coalition ally pulled his party's support over Conte's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, setting the stage for consultations this week to determine if he can form a third government.(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italian president opens talks to resolve political crisis

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

In this Sept. 5, 2019, file photo, Italian President Sergio Mattarella, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte during the swearing-in ceremony at the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome. Italian Premier Conte was meeting Tuesday, Jan. 26. 2021, with his Cabinet before heading to the presidential palace to offer his resignation after a key coalition ally pulled his party’s support over Conte’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte to resign, seek OK to form new coalition

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks during his final address at the Senate prior to a confidence vote, in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte fights for his political life with an address aimed at shoring up support for his government, which has come under fire from former Premier Matteo Renzi's tiny but key Italia Viva (Italy Alive) party over plans to relaunch the pandemic-ravaged economy. (Roberto Monaldo/ Lapresse via AP)

Italian premier to offer resignation as government wobbles

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks during his final address at the Senate prior to a confidence vote, in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte fights for his political life with an address aimed at shoring up support for his government, which has come under fire from former Premier Matteo Renzi's tiny but key Italia Viva (Italy Alive) party over plans to relaunch the pandemic-ravaged economy. (Roberto Monaldo/ Lapresse via AP)

Italian PM Conte works to cement majority after narrow vote

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Premier Giuseppe Conte arrives at the Senate do deliver his speech, in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. Conte fights for his political life with an address aimed at shoring up support for his government, which has come under fire from former Premier Matteo Renzi's tiny but key Italia Viva (Italy Alive) party over plans to relaunch the pandemic-ravaged economy. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italian PM wins crucial vote in Senate with very thin margin

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Premier Giuseppe Conte waits for the outcome of the confidence vote at the lower chamber of Parliament, in Rome, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Conte fights for his political life with an address aimed at shoring up support for his government, which has come under fire from former Premier Matteo Renzi's tiny but key Italia Viva (Italy Alive) party over plans to relaunch the pandemic-ravaged economy. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool photo via AP)

Giuseppe Conte, Italian prime minister, job threatened by coronavirus record

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

In this Jan 13, 2021, file photo, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is mobbed by reporters as he walks near Palazzo Chigi government headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021. Former premier Matteo Renzi is testing his already low popularity by provoking a political crisis that could bring down the government at yet another critical juncture in the fight against the pandemic. The outcome Renzi’s powerplay — orchestrating the resignations of two ministers from his tiny but key Italia Viva party — will play out this week, when Premier Giuseppe Conte addresses both houses of Parliament in a bid to win support and form what would be his third coalition government since elections in 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italian PM Conte seeks to save his government from falling

By Colleen Barry and Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Italian Senator, former premier and head of the political party 'Italia Viva' (IV), Matteo Renzi holds a press conference at the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The Italian cabinet was in crisis on January 13, 2021 following the resignations of ministers Teresa Bellanova and Elena Bonetti, members of former premier Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva party. (Alberto Pizzoli/pool via AP)

EXPLAINER: Italy faces a political crisis amid a pandemic

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

A new of the Italian Senate, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. His government risking collapse, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte will address Parliament on how he plans to deal with the political crisis triggered by a small coalition partner’s yanking of support. Conte told President Sergio Mattarella in a meeting Thursday at the presidential palace that he intends to go before Parliament to lay out “the indispensable political clarification” about the crisis, the palace said in a statement. It wasn’t immediately announced when that would happen. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy’s PM to address Parliament on latest coalition crisis

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Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte is framed in a viewfinder of a camera as he gives his year end press conference, in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, pool)

Italy’s Conte says workers’ plight a chief pandemic concern

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A man wearing a Santa Claus costume checks his mobile phone as he waits to pose for pictures at a mall in Rome, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. The health ministry reported another 18,236 confirmed cases Thursday, in line with recent days. The government is weighing whether to impose a tighter lockdown over Christmas to prevent gatherings and the ensuing surge in new cases. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy imposes partial lockdown for Christmas holiday

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

People walk past a shop window adorned with Christmas decorations, in Rome Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Still, the large number of daily new COVID-19 cases is worrying, Italian health experts said, especially with the approach of year-end holidays, which could prompt people to ignore social distancing rules and gather in large numbers to celebrate. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italians told to celebrate Christmas at home to fight virus

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte leaves after announcing new restrictions to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Rome, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. Four regions in Italy are being put under severe lockdown, forbidding people to leave their homes except for essential reasons such as food shopping and work in a bid to slow surging COVID-19 infections and prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. Premier Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday night announced what he described as “very stringent” restrictions on the so-called “red zone” regions of high risk: Lombardy, Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta in the north and Calabria, the region forming the “toe” in the south of the Italian peninsula. (Angelo Carconi/Pool Photo via AP)

Four Italian regions, including Milan, put under lockdown

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

&quot;Sorry we re closed&quot; is written on a sign hanging on the door of a coffee shop where the unoccupied tables and chairs are reflected in the glass pane in Quedlinburg, Germany, Monday, Nov.2, 2020. Since midnight the four-week partial lockdown has been in effect in Saxony-Anhalt. The federal and state governments want to significantly reduce social contacts in Germany in November in order to get a grip on the recently rapidly increasing corona numbers before the Advent season if possible. (Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa via AP)

Germany starts ‘wave-breaker’ shutdown as Europe locks down

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

People spill beer on the ground during a protest against the government restriction measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, who imposed severe-stay-at-home limits on citizens early on, then gradually eased travel and other restrictions, has been leaving it up to regional governors in this current surge of infections to order restrictions such as overnight curfews, including in places like Rome, Milan and Naples. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Italy closes gyms, shuts eateries early to fight COVID-19

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press