Two words on “technical” governments.
In Italy there is a peculiarity that practically does not exist in any other country, which is the “technical” government. Since when we talk about politics in Italy we NEVER tell the truth, it is necessary to establish what is meant behind the word "technical".
First, the government represents the executive power and heads the ministries, which are effectively the central public administration. This is an absolutely technical role, in the sense that ministries do things, and therefore by definition they have developed techniques to do those things. To run a hospital you have to know certain techniques and certain technicalities, otherwise you can't. You would forget too many basic details.
At this point people start talking about "competence". But it is not even this: the government of a large enough country invests practically every field of human knowledge. If the premier is expected to be "competent" in all government activities, we should expect a practically omniscient premier.
Not even the ministers are "competent", after all. If we talk about health care, for example, we might think a doctor is competent. No. Medicine has so many specializations (psychiatry, the clinical part, ontology, immunology, gynecology, obstetrics… and there are hundreds of them) that not even the best doctor ever lived could really "be competent".
The ministries are therefore VERY technical, and they are VERY competent, but their competence is distributed in hundreds, if not thousands, of experts with heterogeneous training, which no human minister, or human prime minister, could ever contain.
Therefore, the “technical government” discourse does not even indicate a “competent” government. Others will say that the "mentality of the technicians" has to do with it, but even here I am sorry to contradict you: Fornero made a 100% mistake in the estimate of the exodus, and this qualifies it as the equivalent of a railway disaster taking place on the Chernobyl reactor. Any technician who misses a cost estimate in this way gets kicked out, period. So we can take for granted that it is not the "mentality of the technicians".
So what is a "technical" government?
The definition is actually simple: the "technical" government is a government in which party politics has been taken out of the balls.
When you make a "technical" government you are not adding competence: the ministries already have that. You are not adding "technicians to power", because ministries are ALREADY technical, and they are 24/7. You haven't added anything at all.
What you do is take something away . You are removing that layer of politics that is normally ADDED to the ministries, and which the premier chooses.
Technical government is not a government to which you have ADDED something. It is a government from which you have REMOVED something, that is the political part.
And there's a reason for that. The Italian parties have a "ruling class" that is a compliment to define embarrassing. Politics is today the social elevator of imbeciles. There is no way to get to the top of a party, if not to be imbeciles, say imbecile things, support imbecility, do imbecility.
Clearly, if we put a hat of imbecility on the ministries, we're going to get a mess. And if we take off the hat of imbecility that weighs on the ministries, things are much better. It doesn't necessarily take Monti or Draghi, people with good education, good work experience, and simple common sense would be enough. You wouldn't have the best government in the world, but you wouldn't have the subhuman catastrophe that happens to you when you take the stinking product that parties call the "ruling class" and whip it into running a government.
Clearly the parties do not want to let you know and do not write it in these terms. Some newspapers wrote that Draghi is "a defeat for politics", but they never wrote the truth:
"You have Draghi in the government because Di Maio, Meloni, Zingaretti, Salvini, Berlusconi (and related parties) are too useless to solve any problem".
Why let's face it: in the last 20 years, political governments have resisted ordinary administration (doing nothing useful), but whenever a SERIOUS and SERIOUS and URGENT problem arose, you immediately switched to a "technical" government, that is, a government where the parties are silent and see how it is done.
And so no, what should be clear is that "technical" governments are not really "technical", they are simply "governments without idiots".
And why this is the result of the vote would be debated, but the only thing to remember is this: "technical government" = "government without idiots". Competence and mentality have nothing to do with it.