FILE PHOTO: Italia Viva's leader and former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi holds a news conference in Rome, Italy, January 13, 2021. Alberto Pizzoli/Pool via REUTERS
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's ruling parties are reluctantly coming to terms with the prospect of having to forge a new deal with the centrist Italia Viva party which quit the government and forced this week's resignation of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, political sources said on Wednesday.
The government crisis could hardly come at a worse time, with Italy in its steepest recession since the end of World War Two and having registered 86,000 deaths from COVID-19.
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