“We cannot block everything while waiting for a date that we don't know what it will be. The calendar foresees that on January 8 we will be in the classroom with the institutional reforms and at the same time in the Senate we will proceed with the electoral law”. These are the words of the Minister for Reforms Mary Helen Woods, which reiterates an axiom dear to the Renzi executive: reforms first, then we will think about the election of the successor of Giorgio Napolitano.
On the election of the next President of the Republic, the old arguments between the Pd members of the Government and Forza Italia were reviewed yesterday. But today Minister Boschi hinted that the Covenant of the Nazarene remains firm, despite the discontent of some members of Berlusconi's party.
Only yesterday the former minister Renato Brunetta he had asked the group leader to postpone the vote on the constitutional reform, however finding the dry opposition of the dem. Brunetta's attempt to give priority to the election of the new tenant of the Quirinale, as Silvio Berlusconi himself has been asking for some time, was shipwrecked in the face of the drumming timing imposed by the Executive on the process of reforms.
Meanwhile, the Head of State reiterated today that his will soon arrive resignation, but he also reaffirmed his support for the work being carried out by the Renzi government in terms of reforms.
And in the meantime Matteo Renzi collect and thank. At the end of a meeting in Brussels, the prime minister said that "when Italy has to deal with the replacement of the president of the republic, it won't have any kind of problem". The Prime Minister also explained what are the reasons that lead him to be so confident on this thorny issue: "I believe that Parliament has learned the lesson of 2013, and I am absolutely convinced that it will do what it has to in the established times".
