Italy faces political crisis as president rejects PM Mario Draghi’s resignation
Euronews says Italian President Sergio Mattarella has rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the presidency said on Thursday night.
Earlier in the evening Draghi said he would tender his resignation on Thursday night, saying his coalition government had collapsed.
“The President of the Republic has not accepted the resignation of the President of the Council and has invited him to come to parliament (…) so that an assessment of the situation can be made,” the presidency’s statement said.
The rejection of the tendered resignation left in limbo the future of Draghi’s 17-month-old government, its survival sorely tested by increasingly sharp divergences within the coalition.