The former Head of State, Giorgio Napolitano, rejects the agreement on the electoral law and the hypothesis of early voting. "We will see the results of this great understanding of 4 party leaders who act only by calculating their own conveniences," said Napolitano. "It is simply paradoxical to discuss whether holding early elections in the fall or early next year could unleash more political uncertainty around Italy."
Your comment on the hypothesis of early voting is very harsh. "It is simply paradoxical to discuss whether it could unleash political uncertainty around Italy, more so going to early elections in the autumn or early next year", said the former president of the Republic, adding: "In this acrobatic switching from French to German could at least spare us the gallop of Parliament this weekend”.
“The first element of uncertainty to be removed is this, still in the present moment – the former president increases -. The specter of governmental instability resurfaced very shortly after the inauguration and the positive start of the new Gentiloni government: it is from February that rumors and pressures for early elections 'as soon as possible' began to chase each other, and then the risk of an unjustified and unreasonable precipitation was avoided by the consolidation of consensus, in Europe and in Italy, around the Gentiloni government, and by the firm appeal of the President of the Republic to the general interest and correct constitutional practice”.
“In all democratic European countries, voting takes place at the natural end of legislatures: doing otherwise means making the maximum negative contribution to consolidating the political-institutional credibility of the country. And it is simply abnormal that instead the game and the extra-constitutional pact on the date of the vote has almost become a corollary of the agreement between the parties on the new electoral law”, concluded Napolitano.
