Italy: Salvini 'would do it all over again' as PM Conte resigns

*BUGS AND TEXT AT SOURCE*
M/S Senate session in Rome
SOT, Giuseppe Conte, Italian Prime Minister (Italian): "Soliciting them [the Italians] to vote every year is irresponsible. Applaud please [Salvini's party members clapping as he smiles]."
M/S President of Senate Elisabetta Casellati asking for order *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Giuseppe Conte, Italian Prime Minister (Italian): "I consider fully legitimate for a political formation aiming to increment ones' electoral consensus but so that a democratic system can pursue the common good and can work under the criteria of efficiency so every party is called to operate through mediation filtering party interests through the light of general interests. When a political force concentrates only on party interests, evaluates its decisions exclusively according to the meter of electoral convenience, it doesn't only betray the most noble vocation of politics but compromises national interests."
M/S Casellati addressing Senate
M/S Salvini getting coffee as Conte talks
M/S Casellati addressing Senate
SOT, Giuseppe Conte, Italian Prime Minister (Italian): "The decisions taken, the behaviour adopted in these past days by the Minister of Interior, and I take full responsibility for what I affirm, revealed scarce institutional sensibility and grave lack of constitutional culture."
W/S Conte talking *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Giuseppe Conte, Italian Prime Minister (Italian): "Dear Interior Minister, dear Matteo, by promoting this government crisis you took on a great responsibility in front of the country. You announced this crisis asking for full powers to govern the country and recently, I heard you invoking the squares in your support. This your conception, allow me to say, worries me [Salvini's party members booing and clapping as he makes faces and smiles]."
M/S Casellati *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Giuseppe Conte, Italian Prime Minister (Italian): "If you would have accepted to come here to the Senate to report on the Russian affair, an affair that objectively deserves to be clarified also for the reflection on the international level."
M/S Casellati
M/S Salvini making faces as Conte talks
SOT, Giuseppe Conte, Italian Prime Minister (Italian): "You would have avoided your Prime Minister to present himself in your place, even refusing to share the information you have with him." *MULTIPLE SHOTS AT SOURCE*
M/S Casellati
M/S Conte concluding speech as Senate breaks into applause *UPSOUND* (Italian): "Long love our homeland, long live Italy"
W/S Senate applauding for Conte
SOT, Matteo Salvini, Italian Interior Minister and League party leader (Italian): "Thank you and finally. I would do it all over again. All."
M/S Senate session *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Matteo Salvini, Italian Interior Minister and League party leader (Italian): "The most surreal critic of all has been: 'But you can't spark a crisis in August'. Because August is sacred for parliamentarians. Parliamentarians work in the middle of August like every other Italian."
M/S Casellati demanding silence *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Matteo Salvini, Italian Interior Minister and League party leader (Italian): "Freedom does not consist of having a just master but in not having a master. I do not want an Italy enslaved by anyone."
M/S Casellati *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Matteo Salvini, Italian Interior Minister and League party leader (Italian): "In democracy the main way is to always ask for the opinion of our employers, which are the Italian citizens. We are public employees in the service of the Italian population and we should never be scared of it. The VAT will not increase if we vote in October and a government is formed by November."
M/S Casellati *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Matteo Salvini, Italian Interior Minister and League party leader (Italian): "If you want to complete the route of reforms that we started and we are in [right now], the parliamentarians are cut and then to the vote." *JUMPCUT AT SOURCE*
M/S Salvini saying thanks and concluding speech
SCRIPT
Italy's Senate session on Tuesday turned into the verbal battleground of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini as the former announced his resignation in Rome on Tuesday.
"Soliciting them [the Italians] to vote every year is irresponsible," said Conte alluding to Salvini's initiation for a snap election.
Conte also accused Salvini of not sharing information on the issue of 'Russiagate', whereby the interior minister had allegedly sought out Russian funding, an issue Salvini had promised to address before the Senate.
Salvini who had made faces and even laughed during Conte's address announced he "would do it all over again."
"I do not want an Italy enslaved by anyone," said Salvini who added his employers were Italian citizens whose opinions he was heeding.
Last week Salvini filed a motion of no-confidence against Conte in the hopes that it will lead to snap elections, following a disagreement with his coalition partners, the Five Star Movement (M5S). The Senate decided to have Conte address them first, during which he announced his resignation.
Following consultations, Italian President Sergio Mattarella will have to decide whether to go ahead with new elections or try and have a new government formed from existing parliamentary parties.