Italian lawmakers will elect the country's next president on January 24 with current prime minister Mario Draghi among the contenders.
Even if their functions are in theory essentially honorary, the president of the Italian Republic has a key role in the event of a government crisis.
It was in this context that the outgoing president, Sergio Mattarella, turned to Draghi -- the former head of the European Central Bank -- in February to succeed Giuseppe Conte as prime minister after the latter lost
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