The Draghi government has launched an operation to pacify Italian politics. After years of conflict between nationalist and populist parties on the one hand and centrist parties on the other, Mario Draghi's premiership has set itself the challenge of reuniting interests with a majority ranging from the League (
Lega) to the 5 Star Movement (
Movimento 5 Stelle) through the pro-European forces of the Democratic Party (
Partito Democratico) and Go Italy (
Forza Italia). Draghi will perform a function similar to that of the
Podestà in the medieval municipalities of the thirteenth century: an agent external to a system in crisis who seeks to reconcile the factions and replace a political class that is unable to implement reforms.