Mario Draghi made his resignation irreversible today, after meeting with State President Sergio Mattarella. Draghi will now form a caretaker government to take care of urgent matters until the date of early elections, set for Sept. 25.
Despite receiving a majority of votes in the Senate yesterday, Draghi resigned, because several components of his old majority did not accept his blackmail. Draghi had in fact set as a condition for him to stay, that all coalition parties, including M5S, would renew their support of his government. Not only did the M5S reiterate its intention to break with the coalition, but the Lega and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia also broke ranks. Thus, the crisis took a bizarre aspect that for the first time, a government is voted up by Parliament but nevertheless resigns.
