After the resignation of the head of government, President Sergio Mattarella dissolved the Parliament. The legislative elections will be held on September 25.
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Italian president Sergio Mattarella will have done everything to avoid it, but he did not have the smallest escape. Thursday, July 21, at the start of the evening, a few hours after the resignation of the president of the council Mario Draghi and after consultation with the presidents of the two chambers, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati (Senate) and Roberto Fico (Chamber of Deputies), he signed the decree Pronouncing the dissolution of the Parliament, paving the way for anticipated legislative elections. They will be held on September 25.
Before being the Italian Head of State, Sergio Mattarella is a lawyer, professor of public law, and he has never made a secret of his reluctance to the possibility of a dissolution. “The decision to have an early dissolution of the chambers is always the last choice,” he explained during the short speech that he pronounced from the Palais du Quirinal to explain his decision.
In the summer of 2019, while the majority made up of the League (far right) and the 5-star movement (M5S, anti-system) shattered and that a dissolution would have been quite logical, he had left the Time required for those responsible for the left and the M5S to constitute a new coalition, at the cost of an unlikely alliance reversal. In February 2021, when the government was 2 leaving in tatters, it imposed the arrival of the former president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, to reassure Europe and bring the legislature to its end. But this time, he no longer had any appeal solution.
The bad languages will add that during the previous crises, the president had a lever likely to bring the most restless parliamentarians to reason: that of money. Indeed, in Italy, a parliamentarian must have executed more than four years, six months and one day of a legislature so that his mandate fully counts in the calculation of his retirement. However, given the incompressible deadlines, this deadline has been spent for more than ten days … deprived of this little avowable but very real means of pressure on parliamentarians, many of whom know that they will not be re-elected, Sergio Mattarella knew that this time , there was no way out.
Speed loss
The elections will therefore be held on September 25, which leaves the parties very little time to organize. Currently, the Union of right-wing parties (curiously called “center right”, even if most of its components do not have much centrist) is a favorite. At the highest in the polls which credit her by 23 % of voting intentions, the president of Fratelli d’Italia (sovereignist right, postfascist), Giorgia Meloni, already claims the precedence about her two usual partners, the Matteo Salvini League and the supporters of Silvio Berlusconi of Forza Italia (moderate right).
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