Definitely a lucky week for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. After the trip to Ukraine and Russia that relaunched Italy's international role much more than Lady Pesc has known or been able to do so far, Federica Mogherini, and after the go-ahead from the Chamber (second of the four necessary readings) to the constitutional reform of the Senate and of Title V, today the Premier collected two more successes.
POPULAR – In the first place, the Montecitorio hall approved the law this morning reform of public banks, which is now being examined by the Senate: for the banking system it is an almost epochal fact if one considers that the reform, strongly desired by Renzi and the Bank of Italy, has been under discussion since 1997 and that the Government and Parliament they had been able to overcome the obstructionism of the transversal lobby headed by Assopopolari. Renzi brought home the first yes from Parliament, passing the abolition of the one-to-one vote and the transformation of the major cooperative banks into joint stock companies within 18 months, granting only the reasonable limit of 5% of the right to vote, as requested by the opposition and also approved by Via Nazionale.
ITALIUM – Very important and wholly in favor of Renzi is also today's pronouncement by the President of the Constitutional Court, Alessandro Criscuolo, who judged "inappropriate a preventive control of the Court on the Italicum" which, as always happens, can only be ex post, despite the the demands of the opposition and of the dem minority who called for an immediate examination of the electoral reform in an attempt to block the way to its approval and to Renzi's program have forced the government to insert such a provision in the Boschi bill.
THE CIVATI YOU DON'T EXPECT AND THE DISSIDENTS OF THE PENULTIMATUM – Finally, the unexpected words came from one of the leaders of the dem minority, Pippo Civati who from being a Renzian from the first hour has become one of his fiercest opponents, perhaps – someone whispers mercilessly – out of personal jealousy. However, today Civati had the honesty to face reality and the divisions of the Bersani and Fassina Democratic Party minorities, commenting in the Corriere della Sera: "For most of the so-called Democratic Party minority, the battle to face is always " the next one”: this was the case with the Jobs Act and it has been and probably will be in all the passages of the reforms, including that of the Senate which, however, obviously, I will not vote for”.
Civati adds: “This happens: a week before the vote, there are hundreds of dissidents. Three days before, they had become about fifty. Two hours after the vote, if you get to a dozen it's half a miracle". Headlines the Corriere: "The dissidents from the fragile ultimatum". And for Renzi's ears it is music.
