It was
an "inevitable" choice
, the Senate vote and, above all, the modalities of that vote made it clear that there was no room for other majorities.
Sergio Mattarella accompanies - visibly upset - Mario Draghi in the laborious process of resignation and dissolves the Chambers, sanctioning the early end of the legislature.
We will vote on Sunday 25 September
, in fact the only day possible according to the rules that allow a maximum of 70 days from the day of dissolution but also a minimum of 60 to allow the complex operations of presenting the lists and a fair electoral campaign.
The decrees have been published in today's Official Gazette
presidential elections for the dissolution of the Senate and the Chamber and the calling of elections.
The
decree convening the electoral rallies
is for the elections of the Senate of the Republic and the Chamber of Deputies for 25 September 2022 and for determining the date of the first meeting of the new Chambers set for 13 October 2022.
The decree for the assignment to the Regions
of the national territory and the subdivisions of the foreign constituency concerns the number of seats due for the elections for the Senate of the Republic.
The
decree of assignment to the electoral districts
of the national territory and of the divisions to the territory of the foreign constituency of the number of seats due for the elections of the Chamber of Deputies.
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The timing of the vote, lists within one month.
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First deadline 27/7 for voter lists abroad (ANSA)
A long period, to which other weeks will be added for the formation of the new government and which will therefore allow Prime Minister Mario Draghi - naturally in charge of current affairs - to continue to lead the country for about another four months.
Hence the concerned appeal
of the President of the Republic who, after having signed the dissolution decree, appears to the Italians to remind the Italians how difficult the situation is and to sensitize the parties to collaborate with the Prime Minister despite the electoral campaign announcing angular .
"The Government - Mattarella said - encounters limitations in its activities, but it has the tools to operate in these months before the new executive arrives.
No breaks are possible .
- he underlines - at the moment we are experiencing, energy costs have consequences for families and businesses, economic difficulties must be addressed, there are many obligations to be completed in the interest of Italy ".
DRAGONS, LET'S HELP THE GOVERNMENT THAT WILL COME -
Visibly affected.
Someone even ventures to be "moved".
Because after all, as he himself says, jeering in the Chamber to the Chamber, "sometimes even the heart of central bankers is used".
Mario Draghi is for the last time in Parliament in the fullness of his office.
Shortly thereafter he will go up to Sergio Mattarella to definitively resign his resignation.
And he interrupts the few words he pronounces off the cuff, "thank you for all the work done", for the long applause that the hemicycle reserves for him, before paraphrasing the words of a joke that was also told a few days ago to the foreign press.
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The text of Draghi's speech in Cdm - Politics
'I have resigned.
There will still be time for greetings, now let's get back to work ', said the Prime Minister (ANSA)
"We must be very proud", "I will take with me a nice memory of the meetings" and also "of the exchanges" we had with each one, Draghi tells his government team, gathered for the CDM, which sets the date of the elections on 25 September.
Until then, until the new executive takes office, it will be necessary to go forward "with the same determination" and indeed, close everything that is possible within the current business perimeter precisely to "favor" the government to come.
Draghi thanked everyone "for the dedication, generosity, pragmatism" of these months and invites, along the lines of precise indications from Sergio Mattarella (whose "wisdom" Draghi appreciates even in managing this crisis), to look at the things that remain to be done.
BERLUSCONI, WE DID NOT WANT TO MAKE DRAGONS FALL BUT HE REFUSED BIS
- "We didn't want to drop Draghi, but he made himself unavailable for an encore. He was probably tired and took the ball to leave. In any case, he chose him and now we are already working for a new center-right government."
Thus Silvio Berlusconi in an interview with the director of Repubblica Maurizio Molinari.
"We are a responsible force, we have nothing to do with the 5Stelle", Berlusconi continued, recalling that "we were part of a majority of national unity, of a government that I wanted to be born. We had no reason to bring it down" .
Berlusconi then stated that "Forza Italia wanted the government to go ahead but this could not happen with the 5Stelle who had caused the crisis and broken the pact of trust underlying the majority of national unity.
We had proposed a resolution that provided for a new executive without the grillini.
But Draghi decided to put his trust in the Casini motion, which did not contain these indications.
That's why, at that point, the Forza Italia group couldn't help but leave the classroom ".
"I - Silvio Berlusconi guarantees in an interview with Tg2 - I will still be here on the pitch because I feel the responsibility of being present with my action for my country. I will be here every day to tell the program I have already written for the 2023 and which will contain news. It is a truly futuristic program that will bring change for Italy ".
"We are not thinking of single lists (of the center-right, ed). Each party will continue with its own identity, there are differences in position, language, stories between the parties for which we believe it should remain".
Thus the president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, excluding the hypothesis of a single list of the three center-right parties, in view of the elections of 25 September, added Berlusconi.
But Forza Italia suffers the shock wave of the crisis with Brunetta and Cangini who, after Gelmini, choose to leave and Mara Carfagna who reflects but seems to be on the verge of changing direction.
READ, NO ALLIANCE WITH THOSE WHO MADE THE GOVERNMENT FALL -
I think it was a shame, Italy has been betrayed because those parties that have decided not to vote for confidence in the government have done so only for selfish interests ". the secretary of the Pd Enrico Letta in an interview with the BBC, commenting on the political crisis that led to the resignation of Mario Draghi.
"I think that with the three parties that brought down Draghi it is impossible to make electoral alliances in this round", he underlined Letta at In Onda Estate, on La7.
Gelmini: 'The right choice is incomprehensible, it does not put the country's interests at the center'
COUNT, GRILLO DISONCERTED BY ATTACKS ON M5S
- "Today was Grillo's birthday, we talked and I wished him well. Like me, he remained disconcerted, dismayed, by the attacks we suffered, and by the fact that almost all the political forces were there to ask the Movement out of the majority. We were surprised by this hatred, by this aggression ".
This was stated by the leader of the M5s Giuseppe Conte, a guest of Zona Bianca, on Rete4.
"Is the broad field still there? We are a progressive force, but not by self-definition: we are objectively progressive because we look to social justice, to the ecological and digital transition, and we certainly have an advanced manifesto of measures in this direction. Who wants to work on these measures, he can find himself sharing with us, or confronting us. Then it will be up to the Democratic Party to make his choices ", explained Conte.
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.
"For reasons of style I do not express opinions on how Forza Italia has managed this crisis,
assuming a decision that I did not agree with, which I am convinced goes against the interest of the country and which I have never had the opportunity to discuss in a party headquarters.
I am grateful to President Berlusconi for the opportunities he has offered me and the trust he has shown me over the years, but what happened yesterday represents a break with the world of values in which I have always believed that it requires me to distance myself and start a serious political reflection ", said Mara Carfagna, Minister for the South in a note.
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 ".
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