No more vetoes and raises, otherwise the agreement within the Democratic Party will skip. Matteo Renzi took badly the constant attempts of the former secretary Pierluigi Bersani to reopen the discussion on the reform of the Senate again when an internal agreement was already taking shape in the Democratic Party and he whistled the end. Renzi and his majority are willing to correct the text of the reform already approved twice by Parliament but they do not accept the melina: the famous paragraph 5 of article 2 of the reform of the Senate which must regulate the elective mechanisms of future senators can be corrected by leaving freedom for the Regions to establish how to proceed on an electoral level but the discussion must end there. And for this we will go to the internal count: no more raises or skip the agreement.
Renzi's reaction was triggered by Bersani's attempt to reopen the discussion on other parts of the reform with the risk of definitively derailing it or prolonging its parliamentary approval over time and he said enough.
Tonight Renzi will ask the Democratic Party leadership for a binding commitment to approve the reform in the Senate in the belief that he has the numbers to win even at Palazzo Madama and bring the reform almost to the finish line.
Rather, we need to understand what the dem minority will do, which risks finding itself in the extremely uncomfortable position of those who derailed the internal agreement after Renzi's overtures in recent days on the electivity of future senators. And in fact already yesterday, after Bersani's departure, various nuances between intransigents and negotiators emerged in the minority of the Democratic Party.
But the litmus test will obviously be in the Senate when the vote comes this week in a climate of great uncertainty. Certainly the outcome of the Greek vote where the followers of Varoufakis collected a handful of votes against the reformist platform of Tsipras does not encourage the maximalist wing of the Democratic Party.
