Italy will go to elections on September 25

Italy has definitively buried the prolific Draghi era.

The Prime Minister, victim on Wednesday of the loss of support from his Executive partners, announced his resignation this morning.

Parliament has avoided the process of a second vote of confidence, as indicated by the perfect Italian bicameral system, and Draghi has then gone to the Quirinal Palace to meet with the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, and present his resignation.

This has been accepted by the President of the Republic, who has asked him to remain in office to manage current affairs.

Italy will now open an electoral process that will lead to general elections at the end of September 25.

A dizzying scenario at the most delicate moment for Italy and for Europe.

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, appeared before the press in the afternoon and announced that he has already signed the decree that dissolves the chambers, a step prior to calling elections.

"The anticipated dissolution of the chambers is always the last choice, especially if, as in this period, there are so many commitments to fulfill for the good of our country."

The Head of State, in a tone of extreme concern, listed the challenges that Italy faces in the coming months -such as its role in the war in Ukraine, the reforms agreed with the EU to receive the funds from the Recovery Plan or the anti-crisis measures - and asked that the electoral frenzy not distract parties from those priorities.

Draghi appeared this Thursday after nine in the morning in the Chamber of Deputies, where he thanked and received a resounding applause.

Visibly moved, he turned to his favorite joke about central bankers on its head.

"As you see, sometimes the heart of a banker is also used."

Then, briefly, he gave rise to the process.

"In light of yesterday's vote, I ask to suspend the session to go see the President of the Republic to communicate my decision."

Prime Minister Mario Draghi is received by Italian President Sergio Mattarella to present his resignation, in a photograph released by the Quirinale Palace.

QUIRINALE PRESS OFFICE/PAOLO GIA (EFE)

Wednesday's day caused a sort of political short circuit that no one expected in the morning.

Draghi appeared in the Senate with the will to reverse the decision he had made to present his resignation six days earlier.

He did it, he said, due to the strong popular support received and the enormous international pressure, which reminded him of the relevance that Italy had acquired in issues such as the war in Ukraine, and the commitments it had pending with the European Union.

It seemed that nobody wanted Draghi to leave.

Only 3 out of 10 Italians would have preferred to go to elections, according to a survey last weekend by

.

So Draghi appeared in the Senate with a synthetic government program that he proposed to sign in order to move forward.

But self-destructive Italian politics unexpectedly erupted again.

The right-wing parties that were part of Draghi's unity government, La Liga and Forza Italia, thought that the scenario was too propitious to win a hypothetical election and they toppled the prime minister.

Both parties withdrew their support for the Executive under the pretext of not continuing to share an umbrella with the 5 Star Movement.

And then so did the

, who harshly charged the prime minister for not meeting his demands.

A decision that can only be explained by partisan reasons that, among other things, will cause an implosion in Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi's party, which is part of the European People's Party and on Wednesday behaved like one more of the Italian populist forces.

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