‘Super Mario’ names new Cabinet team without a single elected politician: Mario Monti today formed a new Italian government without a single politician - drawing from the ranks of bankers, diplomats and business executives to make sure Italy escapes looming financial disaster. Monti gave few hints about his political programme today, sidestepping a question about whether the government would dip into citizens’ bank accounts as it did decades ago during another debt crisis. Explaining why his Cabinet contained no one from Italy’s fractious political parties, Monti said that his talks with party leaders led him to the conclusion ‘that the non-presence of politicians in the government would help it.’