Before 2016, no political elections: Prime Minister Matteo Renzi no longer limits himself to promising it but puts it on the spot.
With the dual aim of speeding up the new electoral law but, at the same time, of reassuring those who fear early voting and losing their seat in Parliament, Renzi suggests approving the Italicum as soon as possible but with a decisive safeguard clause, which that the reform can enter into force only from 2016 January XNUMX.
We will see in the coming hours and days how welcome Renzi's new proposal will be but there is no doubt that by now the chapter of electoral and institutional reforms is intertwined with the future replacement at the Quirinale and with the election of the new President of the Republic.
With regard to Colle, however, it should be remembered that Giorgio Napolitano, in order to clear the field of instrumental inferences, has definitively clarified that he will not resign immediately but only after the conclusion of the Italian semester of European presidency, which, as we know, ends on 31 December. The change at Colle will therefore take place in the very first months of next year.
