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A large-scale failure of the Italian political system - and the expectations were low enough. Renzi created a government out of thin air and then collapsed it during a pandemic over nothing. Conte let him, and had no plan B. PD and M5S couldn't pass one reform in years.
Renzi's own faults are massive. A ridiculous person so blinded by his narcissism that he can't look at a poll and draw his own conclusions. But the entire government majority failed: the party of chaos, M5S, the party of inertia, PD, and the populist-turned-antipopulist Conte.
The only realistic alternative to this mess is an opposition where *Berlusconi* is the-good-guy. But given some of the worst GDP growth figures in Europe and no one with a mandate to spend the Recovery Fund money, it's no wonder they're so much ahead in the polls.
The populists' parliament, with 36% of the seats for the Fuck Everything party and 19% for the party of Fuck Immigrants, has been put on special measures.
Worst of all has been M5S: they led both a right-wing government and a left-wing one and got nothing - *zero* - out of it.
Worst of all has been M5S: they led both a right-wing government and a left-wing one and got nothing - *zero* - out of it.
The only responsible actor through all this, was Mattarella. Let's hope Draghi can join him there.
But the last two times the parliament was put on special measures - Ciampi '93 and Monti '11 - the Italian party system collapsed.
But the last two times the parliament was put on special measures - Ciampi '93 and Monti '11 - the Italian party system collapsed.
Italians keep being promised one thing - usually a combination of 'more free stuff, less taxes', 'kick all politicians out' and 'shoot migrant boats' - and getting something else entirely. A broken democracy.
The only good thing that can come out of this crisis - keeping in mind that it will open the doors to a Radical Right government in a year's time - is the collection of clowns and nonentities it will rid us of: most of the Five Star Movement, Renzi and his cultists, Casalino etc.
Draghi as PM would be great, given the delicate tasks ahead for the executive: vaccination and Recovery Fund spending. But beyond that he'll still have to deal with the same parliament that voted to close down ports to migrants and lower the pension age. The rot is *political*.
There's a good chance that M5S will lose a splinter group over their vote on a Draghi government. A party that campaigned on a referendum on the Euro (but didn't really mean it) and will end up supporting a Troika President as PM deserves no less than implosion. Bye gurl bye.
That said, a Draghi government may not be formed after all. M5S won't support it in full and Forza Italia will hedge their bets. Fasten your seatbelt everyone.
