{"id":184788,"date":"2022-07-23T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T07:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=184788"},"modified":"2022-07-23T15:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T07:29:46","slug":"italys-president-accepts-resignation-of-prime-minister-draghi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=184788","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s president accepts resignation of Prime Minister Draghi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/619\/61928180.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Italian President, Sergio Mattarella (left) with PM Draghi\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Italian President, Sergio Mattarella (left) with PM Draghi<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">ROME, July 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Italian President, Sergio Mattarella, accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi after a week-long attempt to unite his unravelling coalition failed.<br><br>The president&#8217;s office said that Draghi&#8217;s government would remain in place for the time being to handle current business, but further steps about Italy&#8217;s political future were not outlined.<br><br>Before meeting Mattarella, Draghi told lawmakers he saw no possibility of continuing to govern, after failing to receive broad backing in a Senate confidence vote on Wednesday night.<br><br>The former president of the European Central Bank, who is credited with saving the euro in 2012, has helmed a broad coalition in the eurozone&#8217;s third-largest economy since February 2021.<br><br>It includes parties that often do not cooperate, but came together to show unity in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.<br><br>Draghi, who is politically independent, first offered to resign a week ago, after a populist ally refused to back the government in key vote.<br><br>The offer was however rejected by Mattarella, in a bid by the president to avert a political crisis and give Draghi more time to revive his coalition. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian President, Sergio Mattarella (left) with PM Draghi ROME, July 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Italian President, Sergio Mattarella, accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi after a week-long attempt to unite his unravelling coalition failed. The president&#8217;s office said that Draghi&#8217;s government would remain in place for the time being to handle current business, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184792,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184788\/revisions\/184792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/184791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}