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EXPLAINER: Rituals play role in creating Italian government

FILE - Italy's Premier Mario Draghi addresses the Senate in Rome Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, before submitting his government to a vote of confidence. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (Yara Nardi/Pool via AP, File) FILE - New Italian Premier Mario Draghi presides over his first cabinet of ministers reunion after the swearing-in ceremony, at Chigi Palace Premier's office, in Rome, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) FILE - Ministers of the new Italian government pose for the official photo during a swearing-in ceremony at the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) FILE - Italian outgoing Premier Enrico Letta, left, hands over the cabinet minister bell to new Premier Matteo Renzi during the handover ceremony at Chigi Palace Premier's office, in Rome, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File) FILE - Ministers of the new Italian government pose for the official photo during a swearing-in ceremony at the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) FILE - From left, Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party's spokesman Guido Crosetto and lawmakers Giorgia Meloni and Ignazio La Russa meet journalists after talks with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, at the Quirinale presidential palace, in Rome, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File) FILE - Presidential guards wait for Giuseppe Conte to arrive and brief the media after meeting with Italian president Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) FILE - An unidentified lawmaker casts his ballot during the fifth round of voting to elect a new Italian head of state, at the Lower Chamber, in Rome Saturday, April 20, 2013. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File) FILE - Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni walks out of the ballot box to cast her vote to elect the Lower Chamber president during the first session of parliament at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Friday, March 23, 2018. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File) FILE - A view of the hemicycle inside Italy's Lower Chamber Montecitorio Palace, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. Forming a new government in Italy involves time and decades-old rituals, so although far-right leader Giorgia Meloni emerged as the clear winner in elections last month, the process of getting a new ruling coalition up and running will take time, maybe weeks. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)