“We will try to at least create more favourable conditions to unblock a political situation hardened by irreconcilable positions”, Mr Napolitano said after his first meeting on Tuesday with the two working groups – dubbed the “10 wise men” – he set up on Saturday.
Charged with finding a common agenda for institutional and economic reforms, the two groups bring together politicians from the two main centre-left and centre-right parties, as well as the rightwing Northern League and prime minister Mario Monti’s centrist Civic Choice.
As Mr Napolitano stressed to the international community on Saturday, Mr Monti remains as caretaker prime minister until a new government takes office or Italy returns to the polls.
Mr Napolitano was forced to look for new ways to break the political deadlock, taking Italy into uncharted territory, after the main parties failed to agree on any form of coalition more than a month after elections produced a highly fragmented parliament.
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