Poles apart: former central banker Mario Draghi (top) is the embodiment of technocracy, but many voters, like Five Star supporters (below), demand radical change
On 3rd February, Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella, tasked Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank, with the creation of a new government. The move followed three whirling weeks in which former prime minister Matteo Renzi pulled the plug on Giuseppe Conte’s government, a coalition led by the anti-system Five Star Movement and the centre-left Partito Democratico