PORTRAIT – Believing in his lucky star, the resigning President of the Italian Council thought he could modernize his country, but was caught up in the political system.
In Rome
This Wednesday July 20, 2022, Mario Draghi finds himself, at the age of 74, struggling with the most difficult dilemma of his life. Should he listen to his heart, which tells him to flee as quickly as possible from the backwater of Italian politics, confirming his resignation to avoid finding himself at the head of an impotent government? The temptation is great. But that would send the country into a snap election in early October and into the jaws of financial markets on the eve of an ECB rate hike. And make such a gift to Putin. Or must he, once again, respond to his sense of duty, and to the incessant calls for responsibility that come from the President of the Republic, from the whole country and, far beyond, from Brussels, Paris, Berlin , from Washington? Calls to stay at his post that deeply touched him.
Behind this dilemma, and beyond the wear and tear of the man tired of partisan blackmail, it is also his trace in history that is being played out, as explained…
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