it elice president has appointed an interim prime minister after weeks of talks failed to produce a government and spotted political crisis carlo quarterly who is a former international monetary fund official has been tasked with passing the country's budget and planning fresh elections john how has more. political convulsions in italy beat the new prime minister designate not of political figures but a former international monetary fund official. that the government will maintain in. neutrality with respect to the electoral debates. must now come up with a workable list of ministers but he's unlikely to survive a confidence vote in a parliament stacked against him so the new government will likely become a lame duck interim government until fresh elections in the autumn on the weekend president sergio rejected the euro skeptic finance minister proposed by the five star movement northern league coalition dashing their hopes of becoming europe's