Italian public was witness to the manner in which political parties stingingly rebuffed wide scale appeal for preventing snap polls. September 25 is the date for yet another snap poll in the country’s long history of too many government changes and too frequent snap polls. Parliament witnessed turmoil when three of the Mario Draghi government’s coalition partners decided to boycott a crucial session of parliament in July. One thing led to another. Dismayed by the unbearable wrangling among the constituents of his 17-month-old “national unity” government, Prime Minister Draghi offered to resign.