"Maximum rigor" in deciding the admissibility of amendments to decree laws during the examination in Parliament. The head of state, Giorgio Napolitano, asks for it in a letter sent to the presidents of the chambers and to the prime minister. The recall comes a few days after the withdrawal of the Rome-saving decree, which will expire on December 30. The government's backtracking had come precisely because of the doubts expressed by the President of the Republic about the excess of amendments to the text, which had even come to contain regulations on traffic light bulbs and illegal bungalows built on the beach.
"I renew the invitation to abide by the admissibility of the amendments of close relevance - wrote Napolitano - and the related purposes also by adopting appropriate changes to the parliamentary regulations".
The Head of State recalled his "many calls" received in the past legislatures. Principles reaffirmed by the Constitutional Court in the 2012 sentence, which had prompted the Quirinale to send the then presidents of the Chambers "a letter in which I warned that in the face of the abnormality of the conversion procedure I could no longer renounce making use of the option of referral, despite the awareness that this could have resulted in the forfeiture of the entire decree law, not having the faculty of partial postponement".
"I also expressed the opinion that in this case a partial recurrence would be possible which would take into account the reasons underlying the request for reexamination": in 1996 the same Constitutional Court "set the limit to the prohibition of recurrence on the identification of new reasons for necessity and urgency”, concluded Napolitano.
After reading the letter from the Head of State in the Deputies Chamber, the Speaker of the Chamber, Laura Boldrini, commented: "I hope that in the next few weeks we will be able to finalize a text" on the reform of parliamentary regulations "which was finalized by a working group and be able to bring it to the attention of the Chamber”.
