Reform of the criminal trial, with the Chamber which just today trusted the government with 320 votes in favor and definitively transformed it into law, and then end of life will and ius alone. Shelved the possibility of changing the electoral law and to go to early elections at the end of the summer (the German model rejected, the debate has really come out of the Parliament's work calendar), these are the three reforms on which the government majority in Parliament is focusing.
First, the reform of the criminal procedure code, launched today after the go-ahead to the vote of confidence in the Chamber. Montecitorio confirmed its confidence in the government on the criminal bill with 320 yes, 149 no and one abstention. “Criminal process reform launched. Balance and guarantees in procedures, severe penalties for the most heinous crimes,” Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni tweeted. The text was approved in the same version voted by the Senate over a year ago on March 15, 2017: it then remained in standby for a long time due to differences within the majority. The final vote is now a formality, e in particular, it will introduce a new chapter on investigative listening: "Nobody touches wiretapping as an investigative tool - said the rapporteur, Davide Ermini of the Pd -, but we try not to end up in the newspapers about people who have nothing to do with the trials, and not to end up in jail anyone who is the subject of wrong information”.
Another hot reform is that of the ius soli, or the right to Italian citizenship for those born on Italian territory. The issue is becoming even more burning after the "hard" turn of the 5 Star Movement, which in Rome declared war on Roma and migrants, approaching the line that has always been supported by Salvini's League. Beppe Grillo himself intervened on the ius soli, announcing that the Movement will not vote in favor even in the Senate: “What they offer us is an Italian pastrocchio that wants to give a political sop to those who still feed on ideologies. Granting Italian citizenship means granting European citizenship, therefore such a delicate issue must be preceded by consultation with the EU states, in order to have uniform rules. For these reasons, the M5s, in line with what has already been done in the Chamber, will express an abstention vote on the Ius Soli".
Finally there is the biotestament, for which work has resumed in the Senate after 7 months of postponements out of 16 of parliamentary discussions: a 491-day journey which now, as for the ius alone, risks shipwreck. “Ius soli and living wills – commented the president of the Senate Pietro Grasso – are two of the many proposals being examined by Parliament which closely concern the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens. There is no doubt that it would be very serious not to be able to complete the long and sometimes too tortuous path that these measures have had during this legislature: it would be a really bad signal from politics and institutions towards those who are waiting for concrete answers to their problems. The horizon remains that of the natural end of the legislature, expected for next year. However, if the prospects were to change, the political forces would in any case have no justification. For my part, I am convinced – and I have learned this precisely in these years, new for me, in Parliament – that where the political will exists, the desired results can also be obtained quickly. For this reason I have reiterated publicly and also in my conversations with the Presidents of the Commissions engaged in examining the texts to which you refer the absolute need not to disregard the hopes of public opinion and to proceed quickly to be able to bring them to the table as soon as possible attention of the House".
