Draghi, a year as prime minister: "On the pitch in 2023? I exclude him"!

(Adnkronos) - The vaccination campaign, the fight against the virus, the straight bar on the super green pass, the goals achieved by the PNRR, the leading role in Europe, the nuanced dream of the Quirinale. These are the main 'ingredients' of Mario Draghi's first year at Palazzo Chigi (the government was born on 13 February 2021). A year as prime minister at the head of such a varied majority that anyone would struggle to keep together. Anyone but him, the "grandfather at the service of institutions", perhaps the definition that best suits the former ECB number one who has faced many, many challenges in 75 years of life, without ever backing down. After the nuanced dream of the Colle, Draghi is aiming straight for 2023 and does not let himself be pulled by the jacket. To those who would like him on the field even after the end of the legislature in 2023,

Jesuit training, Roman by birth, life put him to the test very early on, leaving him orphaned at the age of 16. Son of a Bank of Italy official and a pharmacist, from an early age he has a passion for numbers, "good but not nerd, he always spent his homework in class", his schoolmates say today. He studies in Rome but specializes in the States, in Boston, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many years later for the Americans he will become 'the unitalian' precisely because he seems, at least in their eyes, so little Italian. "Where is Mario?" he used to ask US President Barack Obama to his staff in the most critical moments for the country's economy, calling him on the phone for advice, an opinion, a consultation.