Mario Draghi, this Thursday in Rome.YARA NARDI / Reuters
Mario Draghi, former head of the ECB, presented this Friday afternoon the list of ministers that will make up his Executive to the President of the Republic of Italy, Sergio Mattarella.
One more step towards the formal proclamation of the new Italian prime minister, who this Saturday could be sworn into office together with the holders of all the portfolios.
Draghi will thus head the third Executive of the legislature after the two presided over by his predecessor, Giuseppe Conte.
His appointment will put an end to two long months of political and institutional crisis that have pushed Italy back into the abyss.
The Draghi government will have a hybrid profile between technical and political specialists.
The future prime minister wanted to form a high-level team with names outside the political orbit.
But he also sought to satisfy the parties that have given him their unanimous support (except the right-wing formation Brothers of Italy).
A balancing act that is clearly seen throughout the list.
There are some repetitions, such as the high official Luciana Lamorgese in the Ministry of the Interior;
the social democrat and heavyweight of the Democratic Party (PD), Dario Franceschini, in Culture;
the
Grillino
Luigi Di Maio Affairs, Roberto Speranza to the front of the Ministry of Sanidad.Pero also be very compelling figures that bring fresh air as Marta Cartabia, former
president of the Constitutional Court, in the Justice portfolio.
In total, 15 men and eight women.
One of the most relevant figures, perhaps the most anticipated name, was the technician Daniele Franco, who will occupy the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
General Director of the Bank of Italy, an expert in public finances and a man of absolute confidence of the future prime minister, will be in charge of distributing the game in the distribution of the 209,000 million in European funds that will arrive in Italy.
Vittorio Colao, CEO of Vodafone in the world between 2008 and 2018, will be in charge of Digital Transition.
The same man who Conte commissioned a plan to rebuild Italy after the pandemic, but who ended up leaving it in a drawer.
The PD has managed to place three of his men.
In addition to Franceschini, the deputy party secretary Andrea Orlando (Labor) and Lorenzo Guerini (Defense) will hold portfolios.
One more than the 5 Star Movement (M5S), which theoretically started with an advantage, since it won the last elections.
One of the ways to satisfy the M5S, however, has been the creation of a
super
-
ministry
of Ecological Transition, as requested by its founder, Beppe Grillo.
No one from the anti-system formation will be in charge, but there will be a profile proposed by them: coach Roberto Cingolani.
The right, represented by the League and Forza Italia, has also achieved its share of power in the Council of Ministers.
Berlusconi's party manages to place Renato Brunetta at the head of the Ministry of Public Administrations and Mara Carfagna, at the South and Social Cohesion Ministry.
Mariastella Gelmini, who was already Minister with Berlusconi, will occupy the portfolio of General Affairs and Autonomy.
The League will be handed the Ministry of Economic Development, which will be led by the leader of the party's most centrist wing, Giancarlo Giorgetti.
The secrecy with which the former banker has conducted negotiations and meetings these days with some of the candidates is unusual in Italy.
It is the first time in years that there have been no leaks, rumors or pressures.
Not even the parties knew until two hours before if Draghi would go to the Quirinal Palace this Friday to see Mattarella or if any of his fellow ranks would be part of the new political artifact.
The ritual says that the head of state is the one who appoints them and has the power to veto them, as he did two and a half years ago with the
anti-European
Paolo Savona, who the League intended to put in charge of the Economy.
However, the new Executive was born as a result of a total complicity between Mattarella and Draghi.
The constitutional ritual indicates that the ministers and Draghi himself must swear in office in the next few hours at the Quirinal Palace.
Starting Monday, the investiture and vote will take place in Parliament.
A process that should represent only one procedure, but the division that prevails today in the 5-Star Movement may leave some image of transfuguismo, but without impact on the final result.