The Italian right rejects the vote of confidence in favor of Draghi

The Forza Italia and Liga parties, which are part of the Italian ruling coalition, rejected this Wednesday in the Senate to support the motion of confidence in Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, as the Five Star Movement (M5S) had already announced.

Invoking their unavailability to continue in the government coalition together with the M5S, the parties Força Italia (center right), led by Silvio Berlusconi, and Liga (extreme right), led by Matteo Salvini, said they would not vote in the Senate (upper house of parliament). ) the vote of confidence in Draghi, paving the way for the fall of the executive.

According to spokesmen for both parties, their representatives in the Italian Senate will leave the Chamber when the vote of confidence is voted on the current prime minister, whose resignation was rejected last week by the president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella.