Decide or perish. On the constitutional reform of the Senate "there will be room" for a rebalancing which, without armor, pays "attention to the checks and balances", but on the Italicum no: “The time for melina and postponement is over” . Prime Minister Matteo Renzi himself wrote it in "La Stampa" and explained yesterday's disruptive decisions of his government to root out dissidence and bring about the reform. "We put trust - he explains - because, after making dozens of changes and having mediated, you either decide or you go back to the starting point".
"If a Parliament decides, if a Government decides - adds the premier - this is democracy, not dictatorship. If (on the other hand) Parliament postpones and the Government stalls, the risk is anarchy”.Matteo Renzi is the first to know that an electoral law is never perfect and that the Italicum too is the result of a political compromise but it is "a serious and rigorous electoral law" which gives stability and clarity to Italian politics. And which is certainly better than both Porcellum and Consultellum. The Prime Minister recalls the infinite adjustments that the Italicum has already suffered in its parliamentary process and spares no barbs at the address of Forza Italia, which had approved the Italicum in the Senate praising it and today would like us to believe that it is an authoritarian law, by Sel (the threshold is dropped from 8 to 3% to facilitate entry into Parliament of minor formations) and the 5 Star Movement (the award to the list rather than to the coalition will make it the probable antagonist to the Democratic Party in the ballot).
Now, however, the time has come to decide because the Italians have already waited 9 years to have a new electoral law, which is the antechamber of all reforms, and they can't take it any more. Renzi does not care about the media storm that the recourse to trust on the Italicum has unleashed - even if he does not give up on recalling that previously on an electoral law it was Alcide De Gasperi (with Aldo Moro as speaker) who resorted to the vote of confidence - but he goes to the point and does not forget the possible overwhelming political effects after not only the opposition but also the Pd minority (with Bersani, Epifani, Speranza, Bindi, Cuperlo and Civati) have announced that they will not vote for confidence.
"If the Italicum does not pass - he observes - the Government goes home” and “if there is a need for a premier who makes melina, I'm not the right person. If they want one procrastinator, let them choose another, I'm not in the game”. Finally, the premier defends the use of the vote of confidence arguing that, “with the open scrutiny, imposed by the vote of confidence, citizens will know who was in favor and who was against” the Italicum in the light of the sun. “This – concludes Renzi – it's time for courage” and everyone must take their own responsibilities. Today, in the first vote of confidence in the Chamber, we will begin to understand if Renzi can win his bet. Decide or perish.
