The President of the Italian Council submitted his resignation after being disavowed by three parties of his coalition in the Senate on Wednesday evening. It will continue to run day-to-day operations until an election.
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| [Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigns] |
The time of Draghi has come to an end. This past Thursday morning, the President of the Italian Council offered his resignation to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. After the disavowal that he suffered the day before in the Senate at the hands of three allied parties who are part of his coalition, his choice does not come as a surprise.
Even if Mario Draghi were to win the vote of confidence that was held in the evening, he would no longer have the support of three parties in his coalition. These parties are Forza Italia, the right-wing party led by Silvio Berlusconi, the League, the far-right formation led by Matteo Salvini, and the populist group Mouvement 5 Etoiles (M5S), which ultimately decided to abstain from voting.
Sergio Mattarella has given the former President of the European Central Bank (ECB) the responsibility of continuing to manage current affairs. This task was given to the former President of the ECB when he arrived at the head of the Italian executive in February 2021 to get the country out of the health and economic crisis.
In the previous week, he had previously tendered his resignation, but Sergio Mattarella had rejected it right away in the expectation that a last mediation would be successful in Parliament in reassembling the governing coalition.