Mario Draghi is summoned by the President of Italy to form an emergency Government

The former president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has been summoned by the head of state in Italy, Sergio Mattarella, to entrust him this Wednesday with the formation of an emergency government in the face of the political crisis in which the country has plunged after disputes in the management of European funds against the pandemic that ended with the resignation of the former Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, who has now been unable to reissue a new pact with the same partners, always bordering on institutional disaster and almost always finding the right A way to avoid it tangentially, Italy will try a new Executive after Conte failed to carry out a third term in the same electoral cycle, a political victim of a Matteo Renzi who, after forcing his resignation, allowed his options to remain in office to be consumed. Chigi Palace The head of the transalpine state has resorted to the figure who, along with Conte, maintains the most prestige in the country, the former president of European Central Bank Mario Draghi, the man who calmed Europe’s biggest debt crisis when, in the summer of 2012, at the head of the European Central Bank, underlined in words chiseled in stone that the institution “is ready to do whatever it takes. necessary to preserve the euro and believe me, it will be enough “, in what was a turning point in the storm in the eurozone.” We need a high-profile government, “said President Mattarella when announcing the call to Draghi, for this Wednesday at 12 noon. The intention is to avoid elections, “the long period of the electoral campaign and the reduction of government activity would coincide with a crucial moment for Italy.We need a strong government that can activate initiatives and not a government in an electoral campaign “, argued the president, who has asked” all forces to give their support to a high-profile government. “Mario Draghi has already been used to seeing governments. of all kinds in Italy as general director of the Treasury, and in 2011 he assumed the presidency of the European Central Bank, succeeding Jean-Claude Trichet, where he was until last October 2019.