The nerves of Conte and Salvini Draghi's first year at Palacio Chigi was relatively uneventful. The media did not stop praising Super Mario , the country was coming out of the pandemic relatively well, the economy was growing more than the European Union average, Italy seemed to count more internationally. The Azzurri even won the Eurocup and Måneskin, Eurovision. The parties, misplaced and blurred, followed the current and swallowed. Conte had enough problems getting himself accepted as the leader of the M5E and Salvini had to deal with the most pragmatic sector of the League, represented by the number two, Giancarlo Giorgetti, Minister of Economic Development under Draghi, and the league presidents of the northern regions.
The first tensions arose last January, when the new president of the Republic was elected. Draghi, going overboard, did not disdain the offer that many made south africa phone number list him to replace President Mattarella. But if Draghi went to the Quirinale, who would stay at the Chigi Palace? The spectacle was grotesque: no one had a plan, Salvini made a fool of himself, the M5E once again demonstrated its dilettantism, Parliament seemed like a circus. In the end, Mattarella was asked on his knees to stay for another seven years.
Everything solved? Apparently yes, but that week he left deep wounds. In fact, as of February, the navigation of the Executive became increasingly complicated. And not only because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with all the consequences that it entailed, between the energy crisis –Italy imported 40% of the gas it consumes from Russia– and the runaway increase in inflation. The parties began to make their complaints explicit, in the first place the M5E and the Salvinian League, both in free fall in the polls.