Mario Draghi announces his resignation as prime minister of Italy

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Former European Central Bank president sparks new government crisis over Five Star Movement’s refusal to support him in Senate confidence vote

Mario Draghi announced his resignation as prime minister of Italy on Thursday, claiming that the confidence pact that held the executive together was “broken” after the five-star movement was absent from the vote on a confidence issue presented in parliament that same day. Senate.

Following this new disagreement within the government, Draghi met with the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, and convened a council of ministers, at which he announced his decision.

“Today’s votes in Parliament are very important from a political point of view. Most of the national unity that this government has supported since its inception is gone. The trust pact underlying the government’s actions has failed,” Draghi reports, according to Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Source: La Verdad

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