“…In the beginning, Mr. Draghi was publicly described as the leader that Italy had needed for many years: a technocrat, centrist and profoundly Europeanist man who had returned from the presidency of the European Central Bank (ECB) to shed light on the Italian political situation (Marangoni and Kreppel, 2022). He had the challenge of handling the consequences of the COVID-19) crisis as well as maximizing the potential of the funds for the European Union's (EU) COVID recovery plan (Next Generation EU) (Cotta and Domorenok, 2022). Nevertheless, as happened with his predecessors, Mr. Draghi's mandate has been unpredictably short and, consequently, more unproductive than it was thought.…”