It is more and more tussle around theitalicum, which will be examined by the Chamber in the third reading on Monday 27 April. After the replacement in the Constitutional Affairs commission of ten deputies of the Pd minority arranged the day before yesterday by the Pd group's presidency and the flight to the Aventine hill of all the oppositions, this morning the opponents of Italicum abandoned the commission session, thereby invalidating the amendments and leaving a provisional green light for the reform of the electoral law.
But the real battle has only been postponed and will begin next Monday, in the Chamber of Deputies. “Enough of the swamp, ahead of everything”, the prime minister cuts short Matteo Renzi on his Facebook profile. “For years we have been saying that changing the electoral law is a priority. Stopping today would mean consigning the entire political class to the swamp and saying that we too are the same as all those who have stopped short of the finish line in recent years. But no, we're not like that."
And while the Minister of Reforms Maria Elena Boschi invites the parliamentarians not to hide behind the secret ballot ("I think that battles can be fought openly"), the words of the group leader Renato Brunetta preceded the relaunch of the premier, who he defined the position of the Democratic Party as "unacceptable", "which wants to eliminate any debate in any sense". In protest, therefore, Forza Italia? "will leave the Democratic Party all the responsibility for approving the armored Italicum on its own". However, he will have to explain how he can vote against a reform he approved in the Senate.
