While Sergio Mattarella reconfirmation as President of the Republic may appear as a sign of stability in a notoriously dysfunctional democracy, his second term opens Italy to a dangerous constitutional scenario that has long been coveted by the country’s far-right.
As Italy’s presidential election looms, the far-right Fratelli d’Italia’s leader Giorgia Meloni has tried to retain her party’s populist identity while also appealing to mainstream-conservatives. How far can she go?
In Weimar Italy, the boundaries between parliamentary republic and semi-presidentialism seem to fall at times, while technocrats run the show. How did we get here?