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Renziâs Power Play Is a âMasterpiece.â Heâll Be the First to Tell You.
With a series of maneuvers that could have made Machiavelli blush, the former prime minister gave Italy a new government. Just donât expect anyone to thank him for it.
âThis was my strategy,â said Matteo Renzi, center, who brought down Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and cleared a path for the former central banker Mario Draghi to replace him.Credit.Alessandra Tarantino/Associated Press
Feb. 9, 2021
ROME â When Matteo Renzi, the former Italian prime minister currently polling at about 3 percent, triggered the collapse of the Italian government last month, he became the target of near universal opprobrium and bewilderment for plunging the country into political chaos in the middle of a pandemic.