His main coalition partner, the Northern League, said the party would not accept a temporary, technocrat government and would push for immediate fresh elections.

"We think elections are the only way, the only solution for the country," spokeswoman Nicoletta Maggi told the BBC. "The people must decide who is going to rule them, nobody else, through the vote."

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