No clue as to what’s going to happen. Mario Draghi and politics italians About the result of the latest political storm in the country, high decibels and contradictory indecision. The danger is that in the next few hours chaos will result in the transalpine Executioner dissolving, but neither recent polls nor cross-declaration of political forces allow us to make precise predictions about the end of a war. crisis This worries the European Union. So much so that even the bookies could not come to an agreement on the outcome.
At celebrity discretion, Draghi contributed to this in the first person. environment of complete uncertainty about the future prime minister of italy. As has been the case for days, the former head of the European Central Bank gives no clue as to what kind of crisis his coalition partner, the populist 5 Star Movement (M5E), could unleash last Thursday. After initial pessimism, his environment has hinted in the past few hours: Draghi may withdraw his resignation It had submitted after a scuffle with the M5S over alleged divisions between this force and the rest of the coalition as a result of recent government measures. But nothing was made public.
He was the only person on the Italian peninsula who had the audacity to voice his wishes for the former banker to remain prime minister. 1,600 mayors of the country. One after another — since last weekend — they signed a petition asking the president not to step down. a very sensitive moment for the economy country and Europe. On the contrary, the only party on the right that is not in the governing coalition is brothers from Italy of the Giorgia Melonydid the opposite. The moment of political fragility was seen by the right-wing establishment as an opportunity to re-ask for elections to be held before the appointed end of the legislature in the spring of 2023.
Coalition support for Draghi
In its place, Enrico LettaThe head of the progressive Democratic Party, one of the few people Draghi spoke to during the day, chose silence after implying that his first option was to keep the prime minister in office. In public, this is the same stance expressed by the rest of the coalition parties, including the right. forza italy and League. However, these last two entities said they were not afraid of a possible call for early elections and insisted on rejecting the M5E as “unreliable”.
In any case, the first response will come this Wednesday, the day the parliamentary agenda includes an expected outcome. Draghi’s speech in the Senatethen there will be a vote movement of trust and the next day, another vote in the Italian Congress. Then the size of the private Vietnam inhabited by the M5E, whose latest intrigues put it in danger of new divisions, will be after the departure of the M5E. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, a month ago.
Draghi used to say that the M5E also needs the support of the M5E to stay in government at a time when an ongoing war in Ukraine and Italy has to deal with deeper economic ramifications from its EU partners. The unknown knows if he’s changed his mind or if he’s running out of patience.