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Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa casts his vote in the snap general election, with polls showing his incumbent Socialist party still ahead though with their lead over the nearest centre-right rivals narrowing. IMAGES
Rome (Italy), Oct 5 (EFE) .- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) The result of the municipal elections in which the right wing has failed to win in any of the big cities and with which the confrontation has become more evident between Giorgia Meloni, from the Brothers of Italy, and Matteo Salvini, from the League, softening his desire to assault power, makes Mario Draghi breathe easy so that he can continue with his reform government without shocks.FOOTAGE OF THE STREETS OF ROME AFTER THE ELECTIONS.
An Italian Democratic Party delegation led by Nicola Zingaretti attends talks at the Quirinale Palace with President Sergio Mattarella. Mattarella has begun discussions with political leaders on forming a new government following the resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. IMAGES
Two weeks after leaving the governing majority, Senator Matteo Renzi arrives to speak with the Italian President on the ongoing political crisis. The prime minister resigned on Tuesday 26 January 2021 following a falling-out with a junior coalition partner that left him short of a majority in the Senate, the upper house of parliament. President Sergio Mattarella has been engaged in talks with party leaders to seek a way out. They are scheduled to run until Friday 29 January 2021. IMAGES
The Israeli government officially fell apart on Tuesday at midnight local time. The collapse came after Israel's parliament failed to meet a deadline for passage of the 2020 and 2021 budgets. CNN reports Israel will now head to its fourth elections in two years, probably on March 23 next year. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz blamed one another for the collapse of their tenuous coalition government. Opinion polls suggest Netanyahu's Likud party is again on track to win the most Knesset seats in the next election. With Blue and White hemorrhaging support, Netanyahu's biggest rivals seem to be coming from other right-wing parties, which have been gaining ground.
At Matignon, French Prime Minister Jean Castex receives a report on the forthcoming departmental and regional elections from Jean-Louis Debré, the former president of the National Assembly. The report recommends postponing the regional and departmental elections until the end of June 2021 in view of the health and political situation. IMAGES
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