The Italian president dissolves Parliament and sets early elections for September 25

The Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, received this Thursday the presidents of the two chambers of Parliament (Senate and Chamber of Deputies) and decreed the end of the current legislature after the resignation of the prime minister, the technocrat Mario Draghi.

“The political situation has led to this decision,” said the president in an intervention broadcast on television, after having formalized the dissolution of parliament, which will automatically lead to early elections in Italy.

The leaders of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati and Roberto Fico, respectively, traveled this afternoon to the Quirinal Palace (in Rome), seat of the Italian Presidency, to mark the beginning of the process of early dissolution of the two chambers of parliament, as provided for in article 88 of the Italian Constitution.

Mattarella thus concluded the current legislature, which was to end in March 2023, after Draghi submitted his resignation (twice in one week) after losing the support of some parties that were part of the current government coalition.

Subsequently, the still prime minister confirmed that the date of the elections will be September 25.

News updated at 18:15