Mario Draghi: Italy’s president asks ex-European Central Bank chief to form next government | Euronews

Mattarella told Italians on Tuesday night that they had no choice but to form a technocratic government.”There are now two alternative roads: give birth immediately to a new government able to face the grave current emergencies, health, social, economic and financial, or the other way of immediate early elections,” Mattarella said.While acknowledging that a parliamentary election was an important “exercise in democracy”, he said forming a government would take a long time.”This would mean to keep our country with a government not fully functioning during crucial months, decisive for the fight to the pandemic, to use the European funds, and to tackle the serious social issues,” he said.Italy has suffered greatly due to the COVID pandemic and has the second-highest death toll in Europe with over 89,000 deaths.In 2020, Italy’s gross domestic product fell 8.8% and nearly 450,000 jobs were lost, national statistics agency ISTAT reported this week.

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