Once the immunity issue is out of the way, the path of reforms seems to regain the momentum hoped for by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi: despite the tensions caused by the rapprochement with the M5S, Forza Italia is quick to confirm the validity of the Nazarene pact which holds reforms and Italicum together: "Next week the reforms will be in the Chamber - said Romani -: we hope that then the examination of the electoral law will begin immediately".
Berlusconi therefore wants to close immediately for the Italicum, and precisely for this reason tomorrow evening in all likelihood there will be a meeting with the premier at Palazzo Chigi, to lock down the reform including possible changes (raising the threshold for accessing the ballot from 37 to 40 % and standardization of all entry thresholds between 4 and 5%).
The meeting (probable but not yet official) will be preceded by the delicate meeting of the Cavaliere with the parliamentary groups of Fi, to impose the line on the numerous dissidents in favor of an elective Senate.
Meanwhile, the decisive week for the reforms starts today, with the first vote on the amendments in the Constitutional Affairs commission of the Senate. The changes on which there is majority agreement are contained in 20 amendments by the rapporteurs, Anna Finocchiaro (Pd) and Roberto Calderoli (Lega), but it is said that there will be no surprises.
“Now the ball is all in our court. We need to spend well the international and European authority gained with 41% and with the first government measures”, said Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
