The constitutional reform of the Senate can still be improved but not canceled at the third parliamentary reading. It is a scathing attack on the dem minority that the President Emeritus of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, addresses from the columns of the "Corriere della Sera" inviting without too many words the minority of the Democratic Party to "not undo the canvas" of the reform after it has already the overcoming of the so-called equal bicameralism between the Chamber and the Senate received the first yeses from the two houses of Parliament.
As usual, Napolitano goes straight to the heart of the problem to reject the request of the dem minority to dismantle the reform by reintroducing the election by direct suffrage and with the proportional method of future senators. A request that yesterday the president of the Constitutional Affairs Commission of Palazzo Madama, Anna Finocchiaro, has already rejected deserving the appreciation of Napolitano despite the usual waverings of the president of the Senate, Grasso who - let us not forget - was indicated to lead the Senate by the then secretary of the Pd, Pierluigi Bersani, today head of the quarrelsome and confused internal minority of the party.
If we went back on the direct election of senators, which Renzi's reform excludes, the whole castle of the iforma itself would collapse - argues Napolitano - and over a year of parliamentary work would be thrown into the trash, moving away the goal over time and making it increasingly tortuous the path that, sooner or later, will have to lead to future political elections.
After having clearly indicated the decisive point of the direct or non-electability of senators, Napolitano also goes to the heart of the political point, which is the prejudicial aversion of the dem minority to the secretary and prime minister Matteo Renzi, despite the legitimacy he gathered in the primaries and at the party congress. "Do not overlap - the President emeritus concludes severely - with a confrontation that remains within the limits of a dutiful common responsibility, destructive political oppositions and pure polemical artifices" such as those supported by the dem minority and by the opposition to hinder the path of the reform of the Senate.
At Palazzo Madama, the clash over the reform is suspended for the time being for the holidays but will reopen on 8 September when the dem minority, led by Vannino Chiti and Miguel Gotor, will present about twenty amendments and, in turn, the Northern League's Calderoli he will add 510 to relaunch the direct election of senators and try to undermine the reform wanted by Renzi.
