. @matteorenzi, known as "il Rottamatore" (the Scrapper).
Scrapped his own government in 2016 by promising he would resign unless he could get the Constitutional reform he wanted passed by the electorate in a referendum.
Cool.
Scrapped his own government in 2016 by promising he would resign unless he could get the Constitutional reform he wanted passed by the electorate in a referendum.

Wrecked his own party in 2019 so he could create a personal one that will get 2% of the vote -- all going well.
Excellent!

Likely to bulldoze the Conte government he ABSOLUTELY wanted only last year as a way of stopping Salvini from becoming PM.
(Without a clue as to what will replace it, he may usher in a... Salvini PM).
Absolutely brilliant!
(Without a clue as to what will replace it, he may usher in a... Salvini PM).

I have no idea whatever he ever got out of all this scrapping, apart from ruins, anger & fuelling further detachment between citizens and their political class.
Good old Silvio I can understand (I think). But Renzi/Napoleon? Not so much...
