Decrees, government-initiated laws, legislative decrees: from the Chamber the certification of what is now a fact, namely that the legislative power is increasingly the prerogative of theexecutive. And the very latest data from the Montecitorio research service (updated on 15 January just ended) confirms it.
Since the beginning of this legislature, on 15 March 2013, 192 laws have been approved. Well, of these well the 82,81% they are government-initiated, ie 159. Only 31 are parliamentary-initiatives, 16,15% of the total. Then there is a tiny slice of 1,04% (just two laws) of mixed initiative, ie unified texts resulting from government, parliamentary, regional or popular projects.
In short, the data from the Chamber confirms: the executive is increasingly a promoter of laws compared to the legislative power of Montecitorio and Palazzo Madama. Executive who also has the emergency decree on his side. In fact, it is necessary to add decrees to the governmental legislative initiative: 73 of those presented (but 12 have lapsed), equal to almost a fifth of the acts approved since the beginning of the legislature, 18,77%.
And then there's the chapter of legislative decrees, which are normative acts having the force of law also adopted by the government, even if delegated by the Chambers, pursuant to art. 76 of the Constitution. Legislative decrees are approved by the Council of Ministers. Well, over a quarter of the approved measures refer precisely to legislative decrees: 106, equal to 27,25% of the total.
Then there would be the issue of "trust", which the government raises on various subjects and which in fact reduces the debate and the initiative in Parliament, and this executive, which has already broken every previous record, has only been presenting the the last two trusts: on December 10th on the vehicular homicide and on the 16th on the Jubilee. But this is a completely different story which cannot fail to take into account the "peculiarity" of a tripolar Parliament in which it is not easy to find a synthesis.
But what about the 192 acts to which Parliament has given the go-ahead? Meanwhile, it must be said that one third of the measures (58, equal to 30,21%) concern the conversion of decrees into law. Then another third, or rather a little more (74, ie 38,54%) concerns ratification laws. Then there are the budget laws and connected ones (16 in all, equal to 8,3%), European laws and finally ordinary laws: 38 out of 192 equal to 19,79%.
