"The President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, received today at the Quirinale the President of the Council of Ministers, the Honorable Enrico Letta, accompanied by the Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council, Filippo Patroni Griffi, who resigned the irrevocable resignation of the Executive from him presided over". This is what we read in a note from the Quirinale.
No parliamentary passage is foreseen (instead requested by the oppositions). The Head of State's consultations with the parliamentary groups will begin this afternoon at 17pm and should end by tomorrow evening. Early next week could therefore swear the new government led by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi. The 5 Star Movement and the Northern League have already announced that they will not participate in the consultations.
Letta's resignation "necessarily follows the resolution adopted yesterday, in public form and with the express consent of the Presidents of the respective parliamentary groups, by the leadership of the Democratic Party in favor of a change in the government structure - continues the note -. Having thus lost the decisive support of the main component of the government majority, the Prime Minister believes that at this point a formal parliamentary passage could not offer elements such as to induce him to postpone his resignation, also because he would not in any case be available to preside over governments supported by hypothetical different majorities".
The Head of State acknowledges “the position expressed by the Prime Minister: Parliament will in any case be able to express itself on the origins and reasons for the crisis when it is called to give its confidence to the new Government. The same procedure was followed when the resignations of the respective governments were presented to the Head of State, without any prior communication to the Chambers, by President Berlusconi and President Monti during the last legislature".
For his part, the President of the Republic "will carry out the consultations of the parliamentary groups as soon as possible - concludes the note from Colle - in order to start the complex subsequent phase which will have to lead to an effective solution to the crisis, which is extremely timely in the delicate economic phase that the country is going through and to face the examination of the new electoral law and the institutional reforms deemed most urgent as soon as possible. The consultations will begin this afternoon and will end tomorrow”.
