The Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, will reveal this Wednesday in the Senate if he maintains his resignation, after the political crisis in the ruling coalition, while the parties that support him politically vote again for a vote of confidence.
Draghi will deliver a speech in the Senate (upper house of parliament) at 9.30 local time (8.30 Lisbon time), before the debate and vote on a confidence motion, which will take place in the late afternoon. , when the deputies will pronounce on the political future of a broad coalition of “national unity” which includes parties from various political spectrums, from the extreme right to the left.
Last Thursday, Draghi resigned, amid a political crisis triggered by the refusal of the 5 Star Movement (M5E, anti-system), which is part of the ruling coalition, to participate in a vote of confidence in the executive.
Political crisis in Italy: Mário Draghi resigns after losing support from the 5 Star Movement. The resignation was not accepted by Mattarella
That same day, Draghi’s resignation was rejected by Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who referred the matter to parliament.
On Tuesday, on the eve of the parliamentary session that will dictate the future of the Italian government coalition, Draghi went to the Quirinal Palace (residence of the President of the Republic) to meet Mattarella and then returned to the seat of government, the Palace Chigi. , prepare the motion of confidence to be voted on Wednesday in the Senate.
According to average Enrico Letta, general secretary of the Democratic Party (PD), a progressive political force that supports Draghi, is said to have gone to talk to the prime minister on Tuesday for the convince to find a permanence solution of the current governing coalition.
These talks by Draghi could indicate progress in the negotiations to resolve the current political crisis, after the prime minister accused the M5S of boycotting the coalition, by refusing parliamentary support for aid packages to alleviate the effects of inflation.
In recent days, Draghi, a technocrat, has received thousands of requests not to resign, including a petition signed by thousands of mayors and leaders of civil society organizations, alleging that the country cannot withstand a political crisis, still in its infancy. fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and at the crucial moment of application of the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
With the exception of the M5S, all the other parties in the coalition, from the PD to right-wing and far-right parties, such as Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini’s Liga, have tried to convince the prime minister to stay in office.
These parties consider that the coalition must abdicate support for the M5S, which they describe as “unreliable”, and seek a new dynamic of parliamentary support.
The alternative will be to advance the national elections, which are scheduled for the spring of next year.
The ultra-radicals of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy movement, the only formal opposition to Draghi in parliament, invoke the good results in the polls to insist on this scenario, with the strength of the party already preparing to form a government, according to some social networks.
But the last word will be held by Mattarella, who last January reluctantly agreed to remain the Italian head of state, anticipating a political crisis that is now claiming Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank (ECB) who agreed to form a government in february. of 2021, to try to move.
Source: Observadora
