Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned
.
A council of ministers
in the late afternoon will adopt a measure that defines
the perimeter for the handling of current affairs
, according to what is learned from government sources.
After meeting President Mattarella at the Quirinale, Draghi saw the President of the Senate Elisabetta Casellati at Palazzo Giustinani and the President of the Camera Fico at Montecitorio.
The two presidents are expected at the Quirinale in the afternoon.
LA NOTE DEL COLLE
- "The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella received the President of the Council of Ministers Professor Mario Draghi this morning at the Palazzo del Quirinale, who, after having reported on yesterday's discussion and vote in the Senate, reiterated his resignation and the resignation of the government he chaired. The President of the Republic took note of this, the government remains in office for the handling of current affairs ".
This is what Ugo Zampetti, Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic declares in a video from the Quirinale.
CALLED TO QUIRINALE CASELLATI E FICO
- Mattarella will receive the Presidents of the Chambers in the afternoon at the Quirinale, pursuant to art.
88 of the Constitution.
This is what is written in a note released by Colle.
Casellati will go up to the Quirinale at 16.30.
At 5 pm he will turn instead to the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico.
Article 88 of the Constitution cited in the Quirinale communiqué reads: "The President of the Republic, having heard their Presidents, dissolve the Chambers or even one of them".
The meeting with Casellati and Fico therefore has as its object the assessment of the
dissolution of the parliamentary assemblies
.
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BRUNETTA AND CANGINI LEAVE FI
- The Minister of Public Administration Renato Brunetta leaves Forza Italia.
He announces it in a note in which he states that "by not voting trust in Draghi, Forza Italia has betrayed its history and its values. It is not I who leave, it is Forza Italia that leaves itself".
Andrea Cangini also leaves Forza Italia.
This is confirmed by the Italian senator, who yesterday voted for confidence in the Draghi government in dissent from the party, remaining in the classroom unlike the other forces.
"I am aware of the fact that, by renewing my confidence in the Prime Minister in line with what Forza Italia said and did up to two days ago, I would have automatically put myself out of the party", he added.
M5s, ALEMANNO LEAVES THE MOVEMENT AND GOES TO IV
- The deputy Soave Alemanno leaves the M5s.
The Apulian deputy, who recently criticized the party's choice not to support the Draghi government, announced her farewell on Facebook, saying she was "embittered" and explaining that "the one written in the last period is a bad page that I would not have wanted to read ".
THE INTERVENTION OF DRAGONS IN THE ROOM
- "First of all thank you".
These are the words with which the prime minister, Mario Draghi, opened his speech in the Chamber.
A long applause followed.
"In light of the vote expressed by the Senate last night, I ask that the session be suspended to go to the President of the Republic to communicate my decisions", said Prime Minister Mario Draghi speaking in the House.
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The Speaker of the Chamber Roberto Fico read in the Chamber of the Chamber the letter with which Mario Draghi communicated his resignation presented as Prime Minister.
The hemicycle was full of deputies, who had waited between the ocean liner and the courtyard for the resumption of work.
Fico announced that the Montecitorio group leaders will meet at 1 pm.
The classroom session will resume at the end of the meeting.
Only two of the three ministers of the M5s followed the brief speech by Prime Minister Mario Draghi this morning in the Chamber from the government desks: Federico D'Incà and Fabiana Dadone.
The Minister for Relations with Parliament was the only one of the two to applaud in a convinced manner Draghi, standing up when the acclamation in the Chamber was triggered. The Minister for Agricultural Policies Stefano Patuanelli was absent, and the Minister for Policies youth, Dadone did not participate in the standing ovation, positioned at the far right of the bench with the Northern League ministers Erika Stefani and Massimo Garavaglia.
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