But Mattarella had other plans and instead invited the prime minister to come to Parliament and make an assessment of what had happened.
The senators of the M5E (anti-system) were absent during the vote of confidence of a project-decree presented by the executive to apply new measures against runaway inflation.
After this new disagreement, Mario Draghi held a meeting with the president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella and, later, he convened a Council of Ministers, before which he announced his decision.
The erosion of support for Mario Draghi
Giuseppe Conteformer head of government and current leader of the M5E, announced on Wednesday night that senators from his party would not attend the confidence voteknowing that this would produce a government crisis in Italy, losing the majority to govern.
The refusal of the M5E is due to the fact that the decree-law proposed by Draghi, with measures to help families and companies facing the inflationalso contains a construction project for a garbage incinerator for Rometo which the anti-system strongly oppose considering them costly, polluting and inefficient.
During the vote last week in the Chamber of Deputiesthe M5E voted confidence in the government but subsequently abstained from voting on the decree-law.
The rules are different in the Senate and therefore they must vote on both the confidence and the decrees.
What will happen now in Italy?
A fall of the government would cause early elections and the coming months are going to be complicated due to rising inflation and the pending reforms required for the recovery plan financed by the European Unionwhich granted nearly 200,000 million euros (almost the same figure in dollars).
Mario Draghi, prestigious economist and former president of the European Central Bankwas invited in February 2021 by the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, to lead a heterogeneous coalition that brings together almost all the parties represented in parliament.
The only exception is the extreme right party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), who remained in the opposition and is the great favorite in the polls.
As the parliamentary system that governs Italy is complex, it is not excluded, however, that Mario Draghi obtains a new mandate and can govern with another majority.
Source: Ambito
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