The Government of Mario Draghi, on the tightrope due to the lack of support from the 5 Star Movement

The Government of Mario Draghi faces, on the verge of crisis, a decisive day in the Senate, where Today a decree with aid will be voted to mitigate the effects of inflation and where the announced abstention of one of the most important partners in the government alliance, the 5 Star Movement (M5S), threatens to bring down the Italian Executive.

The party announced last night that its senators will leave the Upper House during the vote to show their disagreement for considering the measures of the “Aid Decree” insufficient, with 26,000 million euros for families and companieswhich will place the prime minister in a difficult position, who has insisted that he will not preside over a government without the M5S and that there will be no “Draghi bis”.

Thus, there is a huge expectation to know what will happen after the vote in the Senate, which, like last Monday in the Chamber of Deputies, has been raised as a motion of confidence to the governmenta classic stratagem in the Italian Parliament to speed up the processing of laws.

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Although on paper Draghi maintains the numbers necessary to pass the motion and despite the fact that the leader of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, has assured that this does not mean that they will abandon the coalitionit is most likely that the President of the Government will go to the Head of State, Sergio Mattarella, as he did last Monday.

From there, several scenarios open up, ranging from the verification of majority supportclaimed by Silvio Berlusconi, a conservative member of the coalition, until early electionwhich demands the leader of the ultras Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni.

Meloni’s formation is Draghi’s only formal opposition in Parliament, since his “national unity” government, which emerged from the last crisis, in which the Executive chaired precisely by Conte fell, in February 2021, includes a heterogeneous alliance of parties that decided to support him to move the country forward in the midst of a pandemic and to manage the millionaire European aid funds.

The verification requested by Berlusconi, which was later joined by the other right-wing partner of the coalition, the far-right League of Matteo Salvini, has also been invoked in recent hours by other members of the Government, such as the leader of the progressive Democratic Party ( PS), Enrico Letta, in order to see if it is possible for Draghi to remain in charge of an Executive without the M5S.

This despite Conte’s insistence that all this does not mean that they are leaving the coalition but that his party “is absolutely available to help the prime minister” but entering “a completely new phase of government” because these measures “are insufficient “.

In addition to Meloni, Salvini and Letta have also been in favor of advancing the elections, scheduled for next spring, in the event that the verification does not keep Draghi at the head of the Executive.