Sergio Mattarella does not accept Mario Draghi’s resignation as Italian Prime Minister

The President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarellatoday did not accept the resignation of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, and commissioned him to appear before Parliament to verify if he still has a majority to govern.

“The President of the Republic has not accepted the resignation and has invited the President of the Government to appear in Parliament to give explanations and so that an assessment of the situation that has been created after today’s debates in the Senate is made at that headquarters,” reads a statement from the Head of State.

Draghi went to Mattarella to present his resignation after one of the main partners of his national unity coalition, the Five Star Movement, did not support him in a confidence vote in the Upper House.

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The prime minister had already warned that he would not govern without the M5S, despite the fact that his departure from the coalition did not prevent his continuity, since he continues to have the support of a comfortable parliamentary majority.

The last stumbling block between Draghi and the leader of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, precisely his predecessor in office, has been a decree with aid against inflation that the “anti-caste” party sees as “insufficient” and that it criticizes for including measures such as the financing of a garbage incinerator for Rome.

But before that they had had notorious disagreements, given the misgivings of the M5S to continue arming the Ukrainian resistance.

The national unity coalition that he has chaired since February 2021 was divided today between the parties that encouraged him to repeat in office or those that demanded an electoral advance instead of waiting for his natural term, in March 2023.

Among the first, those who called on him to “verify” if he has a parliamentary majority, were the Democratic Party (centre-left), Matteo Renzi’s Italia Viva and Together for the Future, the M5S split led by the current Foreign Minister , Luigi Di Maio.

The far-right Matteo Salvini, also in the coalition, asked however not to fear an early election.

The most interested in voting was the head of the ultras Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, who as the only opposition to Draghi to date is the one that is growing the most in all the polls, already ranked as the first force in the country in most of them.