Matteo Renzi entered the seat of the Presidency of the Republic, at the Quirinale, at 19 o'clock, to formalize his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella. “We are packing boxes – wrote the premier on Facebook before going up to Colle -. I'm ready to hand over the bell to my successor, with a hug and best wishes for the job”.
“The point is not what the outgoing president wants, but what Parliament is proposing,” Renzi also said before going to Mattarella. Now the ball passes to the Head of State, which will begin consultations to form a new government as soon as possible, which will be transitional until the ruling of the Council and the decision on the electoral law to be adopted for the very probable early elections in 2017.
From 18 pm on Thursday Sergio Mattarella will receive the president of the Senate, Pietro Grasso, the president of the Chamber, Laura Boldrini, and the president emeritus, Giorgio Napolitano.
Before going up to the Quirinale Renzi he had spoken to the Pd management, launching a clear message on the phase of the government crisis, which all parties will have to face with a sense of responsibility: “There must be responsibility for everyone. We of the responsible Democratic Party, but we cannot be alone: we have already paid the price of the solitude of responsibility”.
