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He is just about the best known Italian face in the world. He will inspire confidence, at home and abroad.
Economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund, Carlo Cottarelli, last week offered the above assessment of 73-year-old Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank president who yesterday morning was sworn into office to head the 67th post-war Italian government.
For the umpteenth time in the last 30 years, or so it seems, a non-party political figure has had to come riding over the hill to dig the Italian political classes out of another fine mess. In 1993, it was Carlo Ciampi, like Draghi a former governor of the Bank of Italy, who stepped into the breach.
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Draghi begins talks to form new Italian government
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04/02/2021 - 15:07 3 min
Rome (AFP)
Italy s Mario Draghi began detailed talks Thursday on the formation of a new government, a day after being parachuted in to restore political order in the virus-plagued country.
The former president of the European Central Bank (ECB) was slated to meet party leaders in Rome to sound them out about their willingness to support a national unity administration.
Outgoing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, in his first remarks since leaving office last week, said he met Draghi on Wednesday and wished him good luck .
Conte said the country needed a political government that is solid and sufficiently united to tackle the urgent crises brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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