Italy Heads to Early Election After Draghi Resigns

Italy Heads to Early Election After Draghi Resigns
Italian Premier Mario Draghi pauses at the end of a debate at the Senate in Rome on July 20, 2022. Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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ROME—Italy is headed for an early election after its president accepted Premier Mario Draghi’s resignation Thursday and decided there was no possibility for cobbling together another government following the rapid collapse of the ruling coalition.

The demise of Draghi’s coalition in the eurozone’s third-largest economy and the uncertainty of what Italian voters will decide at the polls have dealt a destabilizing blow to the country and Europe amid rising inflation and Russia’s war in Ukraine.