The government crisis that started in Italy last week continues to deepen. Prime Minister Draghi, who announced the government crisis in the upper house of the parliament and sought a vote of confidence in the Senate yesterday, but received a narrow vote of confidence with the support of 3 parties, the 5 Star Movement (M5S), Forza Italia (FI) and the League, this morning, the government crisis in the lower house of the parliament, the House of Representatives. participated in the negotiations.
Making a very short speech at the beginning of the talks, Draghi thanked the parliament for the work it has done so far.
Prime Minister Draghi pointed out that the three parties withdrew their support to the government in yesterday’s vote in the Senate, “In light of the result that emerged in the Senate last night, I request that this session be stopped in order to convey my decisions to the President.” said.
Draghi was applauded for a long time in the Plenary Session of the House of Representatives.
Prime Minister Draghi left the House of Representatives and went to the presidential palace, Quirinale.
According to Italian media, Draghi will offer Mattarella the resignation of his government.
The leading newspapers of the country also united in the opinion that the Draghi government has come to an end after yesterday’s vote in the Senate.
The newspaper Corriere della Sera, while throwing the headline “Goodbye to the Draghi government”, wrote that the League, Forza Italia and the 5 Star Movement, which had withdrawn their support from the government, had sunk Draghi.
While using the title “Shame”, La Stampa wrote that League leader Matteo Salvini and M5S leader Giuseppe Conte had screwed up the government.
The newspaper Il Messaggero also ran the headline “End of the road for the Draghi government”.
In the news and comments in the press, it was stated that President Mattarella will accept the resignation of the government as of the result in the parliament, then he will look at whether there is a possibility of forming a government until the elections that should be held in the first months of 2023, or he will dissolve the parliament and withdraw the elections to September or October.
There are comments that the possibility of elections in autumn is a stronger scenario.
GOVERNMENT CRISIS
The political crisis in Italy started when the 5 Star Movement (M5S), one of its coalition partners, did not support the economic aid package presented by the government in a vote in the parliament on 14 July.
Immediately after this, Prime Minister Draghi went to President Sergio Mattarella to give his resignation on the grounds that his government was corrupted by the failure of one of the elements forming the national unity government to support him.
President Mattarella did not accept Draghi’s resignation, asking him to inform the upper house Senate and lower house House of Representatives about the government crisis and seek a vote of confidence.
Prime Minister Draghi, in his speech in the Senate yesterday, tried to revive his government, which he called the national unity coalition, by using the expressions “If we still want to stay together, the only way is to rebuild the government agreement from scratch with courage, sacrifice and reliability”.
During the talks in the Senate, in addition to M5S, the right-wing parties FI and the League also announced that they would not participate in the vote of confidence in the Draghi government, of which they are a part.
In the Senate vote last night, Draghi’s government narrowly won a vote of confidence, but the three major parties of the coalition did not participate in the vote.
The coalition government with broad participation, led by Mario Draghi, took office on February 13, 2021, as a national unity government, under the conditions of the health and economic crisis caused by the Kovid-19 outbreak. Draghi’s government was supported by 10 political parties represented in the Italian parliament.
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