{"id":283,"date":"2020-10-31T15:08:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T15:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/?p=283"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T09:03:01","slug":"283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/2020\/10\/31\/283\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Coronavirus Taken The Shine Off Italy\u2019s Prime Minister Conte?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defying a series of domestic crises and an unstable governing coalition in Italy, Giuseppe Conte (pictured) could become one of the country\u2019s top 10 longest-serving Prime Ministers after 1945.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He has won credit from analysts, and from many Italians, for an honest and straightforward approach to the Coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 38,000 in the country.<\/p>\n

But now Conte may become a political victim of the crisis.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0a Financial Times<\/em> overview<\/a>, the Populism in Action Project\u2019s Dr. Daniele Albertazzi explains that Conte, a law professor, benefitted from the combination of competence and his status as an outsider among career politicians.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike many other leaders in Europe, Conte has enjoyed [an] increase in popularity, but he has also played it well. He has grown and he has surprised people,\u201d Albertazzi says.<\/p>\n

However, PiAP\u2019s principal investigator continues, \u201cBut this time is different to February or March. The economy is going to be hit very badly, and people are getting very tired of restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

He cautions that Conte\u2019s popularity is likely to take a battering in weeks to come.<\/p>\n

We saw this with [economist and former Prime Minister] Mario Monti. People who come in from outside of politics are always quite attractive at the start, as Italians loathe the political classes. But then people quickly get sick of them as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Defying a series of domestic crises and an unstable governing coalition in Italy, Giuseppe Conte (pictured) could become one of the country\u2019s top 10 longest-serving Prime Ministers after 1945. He has won credit from analysts, and from many Italians, for an honest and straightforward approach to the Coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 38,000 in the country. But now Conte may become a political victim of the crisis. In\u00a0a Financial Times overview, the Populism in Action Project\u2019s Dr. Daniele Albertazzi explains that Conte, a law professor, benefitted from the combination of competence and his status as an outsider among…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Italy<\/a>, Populism in Action Analysis<\/a>, The Project in the Media<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Josh Allen","url":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/author\/allenj\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2018\/05\/Giuseppe_Conte-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2018\/05\/Giuseppe_Conte-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Josh Allen","author_link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/author\/allenj\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}