Abolition of the Provinces, Barack Obama's visit to Rome, and then again the constitutional reform for the cancellation of the Senate, in which an article appears to allow the prime minister to dismiss the ministers. Matteo Renzi will have to face up to a busy schedule in the next few days.
ABOLITION OF PROVINCES AND TENSION IN THE MAJORITY
We start this afternoon from the Provinces. Or rather, with the bill that cancels the political bodies preventing new elections, it provides for a transformation of the Provinces into second-level entities (with their progressive emptying in favor of the Metropolitan Cities), but in fact it does not remove them from the Constitution. “If our proposal passes tomorrow, three thousand politicians will stop receiving an indemnity from the Italians. #the good time ”, tweeted the Prime Minister last night.
And yet, the signs of tension in the majority are not lacking: just a few hours earlier, the bill signed by Graziano Delrio had been stopped twice in the commission (the friendly fire of the president of the Popolari Mario Mauro, absent from the vote, was decisive), and then go to the third round. As for the preliminary ruling on constitutionality presented by the 5 Star Movement, it was rejected by the House with just three votes. In short, a framework that is anything but reassuring for the Executive, which seems determined to put its trust in the provision.
OBAMA IN ROME AND THE UKRAINE DOSSIER
Once this test has been passed, Renzi will have to worry about welcoming the number one in the White House into an armored Rome. Air force one should land this evening at Fiumicino airport, perhaps also carrying the First Lady and the daughters of the American president. Obama's program for Thursday includes a meeting with Pope Francis in the Vatican in the morning, then lunch with the Head of State Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale, then an appointment with the Prime Minister at Villa Madama. Finally, in the afternoon, the American President will visit the Colosseum.
The number one theme of his European tour is naturally the Ukrainian question: yesterday Obama said that "if Moscow goes ahead, there will be consequences", then he assured that if the neighboring countries are threatened in their territorial integrity, then "the allies of NATO will obey the principle of collective defense and will defend them”. The US head of state, not hiding his concerns, then let it be known that NATO is organizing itself even more intensely to ensure that there are contingency plans and that all allies have guarantees: "We will act in their defense whatever happen: this is NATO”, he reiterated.
CANCELLATION OF THE SENATE AND A NEW POWER FOR THE PREMIER: THE POSSIBILITY OF REVOCING THE MINISTERS
Finally, the third dossier on Renzi's agenda concerns the Senate and the constitutional powers of the Prime Minister. According to rumors reported this morning by La Repubblica, the Premier and Forza Italia have reached an agreement to include a new prerogative for those who lead the Executive in the text on the abolition of bicameralism: the possibility of revoking ministers, which has always been a dot of Silvio Berlusconi, who when he was head of the government repeatedly expressed his intention to fire some of his collaborators, first and foremost Giulio Tremonti. Today there are only two ways to dismiss a member of the government: voluntary resignation or an individual no-confidence motion.
