Italy: Prime Minister Mario Draghi has resigned, but the president has not accepted them

The Prime Minister Mario Draghi he resigned this afternoon after the crisis unleashed in its ruling coalition by one of its main partners, the Five Star Movement (M5S).

But the president Sergio Mattarella did not accept the resignation of the prime minister and has instructed him to appear before Parliament to see if he still has a majority to govern.

“The President of the Republic did not accept the resignation and invited the President of the Government appear in Parliament to give explanations and so that there is an assessment of the situation that has arisen after today’s debates in the Senate “, reads a note from the Head of State.

Draghi had communicated his resignation to the members of his Executive in the Council of Ministers, according to his environment, and will present his resignation to the President of the Republic tonight, Sergio Mattarella.

His decision comes after the M5S decided this morning not to vote a motion of confidence in the Senate, distancing itself from the rest of the national unity coalition partners. which Draghi has chaired since February 2021.

“I want to announce that this afternoon I will present my resignation to the President of the Republic. Today’s vote in Parliament is a very significant event from a political point of view,” Draghi told the Council of Ministers, meeting in Rome.

And he added: “The majority of the national unity that has supported this government since its creation no longer exists and the pact of trust that has based the government’s action has ended”.

The break

Draghi had already warned that he would not rule without the M5S, despite his departure from the coalition did not prevent its continuity, because it continued to have the support of a comfortable parliamentary majority.

The last obstacle between Draghi and the leader of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, precisely his predecessor in office, was a decree with aid against inflation that the “anti-caste” party go “insufficient” and which he criticizes for including measures such as financing a waste incinerator for the city of Rome.

But before they had maintained notorious disagreements, given the perplexities of the M5S continue to arm the Ukrainian resistance.

“In recent days, for my part, there has been the utmost commitment to follow a common path, also trying to understand the requests that the political forces have made of me. As demonstrated by today’s debate and vote in Parliament, that effort it was insufficient “, complained the economist.

Draghi took over the Executive in February 2021 to deal with the pandemic crisis, after the fall of Conte, and he did so with a coalition in which all parties were except the ultras Brothers of Italy by Giorgia Meloni.

what’s coming

“In my investiture speech in Parliament, I always said that this government should only continue if it had a clear prospect of being able to implement the government program for which all the political forces had voted,” he explained.

“This unity has been essential to face the challenges of these months. These conditions no longer existDraghi concluded in front of his ministers, who thanked and encouraged to be “proud” of the goals achieved in “such a difficult time”.

When Draghi resigns before Mattarella, he will decide the steps to follow, which can vary from entrusting the government to another person or even call early elections and do not wait for the end of the legislature, in March 2023, as more and more political parties are asking.

The most interested in the political elections is Meloni, who as the only opposition to Draghi is the one that is growing the most in the polls and has already placed itself as the country’s first force.

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There are already 13 million absolute and relative poorwages are bad because in 30 years they have decreased by 3% while in France and Germany they have grown by 30%.

Furthermore, it is registered worst drought in the last 70 years and goes to the rationing of water. Life is much more expensive and it is estimated that in 2023 the country could enter a severe economic recession.

Mario Draghi descended from the skies of world finance as a former president of the European Central Bank in February last year and engaged in a difficult reconstruction of Italy hit by the pandemic.

A successful recovery plan was launched after the disastrous 8.9% decline in the economy in 2020 due to the pandemic that paralyzed the country.

Millions of Italians went on vacation this summer and believe that the Covid virus, which continues to afflict the world, is a ghost of the past, but a new wave of infections denies them. in the last two days it ranged between 103 thousand and 135 thousand infected. The daily deaths reach the hundred.

The government allowed people to ditch their masks and flock to beaches and mountains. Now he has to face reality because the northern autumn promises a new mourning in September-October.

The war in Ukraine multiplies the headaches. The world economy is headed for a recession that could lead to a recession.

In addition to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, climate problems that have already become a global priority, have become urgent in Italy. The unprecedented heat of this northern summer has multiplied the fires by thousands.

A week ago a gigantic glacier collapsed due to the warm temperature in Marmolada, the “queen of the Dolomites”, the mountain range of the Alps in northeastern Italy.

A gigantic and impressive hole was left when much of the glacier’s contents went down the slopes of a mountain and killed at least ten tourists who were walking to the top. There are others missing. AndThe country was stunned by the extent of the natural disaster.

Meanwhile, the recovery plan of 200 billion dollars of loans and subsidies from the European Union to Italy continues, but the risks that political conflicts lead to the fall of the Draghi government are growing and early national electionsin part by unraveling an effort that seemed fortunate from the European decision to allocate a mountain of money to the Italian public structure and to the industrial relaunch.

Source: EFE and Clarin

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