The president emeritus of the Constitutional Court Julian Amato lashes out against the premiership. “This constitutional reform radically changes our system of government based on Parliament. Technically it is a real upheaval which has the effect of weakening the Chambers and draining the Head of State in his role of guarantee, "she said in an interview with the Republic in which he hopes that in its long and complex parliamentary process, the reform will turn into a German-style premiership which strengthens the figure of the prime minister but does not diminish the role of Parliament and above all "the architecture designed by the founding fathers".
Amato against the premiership: "It reduces the head of state to a deflated balloon"
Amato rejects without any ifs or buts the constitutional reform to establish the premiership, dismissed yesterday by the Council of Ministers. “An institution that derives its legitimacy from Parliament compared with another institution legitimized by the electorate is comparable to a deflated balloon. This reform undermines the very authority that the President of the Republic has enjoyed up to now in that guarantee function that he exercises through formal and informal acts", said the former prime minister, adding: "If two positions sit one in front of the the other, one with a popular mandate and the other without, will be the first to be pre-eminent over the second”.
This reform aims to give political stability and put an end to rainbow majorities and technical governments (which they often have saved our country). “When a system has become unstable because its foundations have gone from solid ground like that of the old parties to the shifting sands of the current electorate which is more changeable than a feather in the wind, the solution cannot be to strengthen the top. If you make the attic heavier, the risk is that the already fragile building will collapse more easily,” continued Amato.
Differentiated autonomy was also rejected
However, the former president of the Consulta does not hide a certain thing optimism: “I think that politically trained people like Meloni ultimately choose solutions that expose them to fewer risks. And when they understand that identity reasons could lead them to a referendum, they prefer to take a more reasonable path." Then the forecast: “The text as it was approved will not have a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Therefore he will not be able to avoid the confirmatory referendum. The victory of the No would become a political defeat that seems truly imprudent to suffer. Otherwise, a bill approved unanimously or almost unanimously would not expose Berlusconi and Renzi to the risk that hit Berlusconi and Renzi in the past. 'There's no two without three' is a rule that history increasingly tends to confirm." Passed me too'differentiated autonomy promised by Meloni to Salvini: “If that reform also passed, we would have an Italy that was unbalanced from several points of view. To the institutional imbalance would be added a more accentuated regional imbalance, between over-financed regions and under-financed regions".
