All eyes on the famous article 2 of the reform of the Senate, the one that governs the election of future senators. Today he will be voted by secret ballot in the hall of Palazzo Madama in the part (paragraph 5) which modifies the initial criteria and which implements the internal understanding of the Democratic Party, giving citizens back the possibility of choosing according to the methods that the Regions will set.
In a day full of tensions and often folkloric protests from the oppositions of the League and the 5 Star Movement, the majority yesterday definitively brought home the overcoming of the so-called equal bicameralism by predicting that the Senate will be the Senate of the autonomies and will have important but limited functions compared to the Chamber, which will be the only one to trust the Government.
The so-called kangaroo amendment, the rule that bypasses most of the amendments presented above all by the Lega and M5S and which was presented by Pd senator Roberto Cociancich, who has now risen to the honors of the parliamentary news, has dominated the the road to the reform that today will be called, in the hall of Palazzo Mdama, to the fundamental test on the fateful article 2, that is, the one that sets the electivity criteria for future senators.
The agreement reached in recent days in the Pd on article 2, which provides that citizens choose future senators according to methods that the regions will decide, should allow the majority to take another decisive step forward on the constitutional reform of the Senate also if the unknown of the secret votes remains limited to paragraph 5 of article 2 which amends the provision previously approved by both the Chamber and the Senate but written in a not entirely compliant way.
Prime Minister Renzi says he is convinced that the main obstacles to the reform have been overcome and today the test on the electivity of the Senate will be crucial but the sky above the majority seems to have cleared up.
