Prime Minister Matteo Renzi insists on the roadmap: by July the Senate will have to give the first go-ahead to the package of constitutional reforms, which also includes the revolution of the Palazzo Madama assembly itself. After that, we will return to talk about electoral law. The goals are clear, but achieving them won't be easy. If only because the amendments on which the vote will begin on Monday are 7.800, almost all presented by the opposition.
"We reasonably close the constitutional reforms, if the obstructionism continues, by eye within 15 days, from when we start voting...", said the Premier yesterday during the meeting with representatives of the 5 Star Movement, "the day after we are ready to discuss the electoral law in the Senate”.
The timing outlined by the Prime Minister gave rise to Sel and M5S, but also the League to the Senate, where shortly before in the conference of the group leaders the majority, with the support of Fi, had ordered to give priority to the Boschi bill even with respect to the decrees of government that are about to expire. The so-called "traffic jam" was in fact resolved by establishing that it will continue from Monday to Thursday evening, with sessions until 22pm on the constitutional reform. Only from Friday will space be left for the competitiveness decree. The protest of the oppositions who tried to pass an alternative calendar in the classroom was of no use.
Yesterday the debate in the Chamber continued throughout the day, which will end on Monday morning with the reply of the speakers and the government. There are already those who fear that the mass of amendments will be circumvented with the limitation of the times set for illustrating them, an instrument envisaged by the Senate regulation.
The rumor is spread by the grillini half an hour before the conference of group leaders, where instead the Democratic Party with Luigi Zanda, assures that "the word has not even been pronounced". In truth, the weapon remains on the table because the quota can always be applied during the discussion and even the Pd admits that "with 7.800 amendments, the obstructionist intent is evident and therefore one can think of limiting interventions, if there were an intervention for any amendment we would be here for years…”.
However, doubts about a slightly too accelerated timing also came from some supporters of the reform: first the co-rapporteur Roberto Calderoli, then the senator of Fi, Donato Bruno, in fact asked the President of the Senate, Pietro Grasso, to extend by a few hours for the start of voting (set for Monday at 16 pm) since the amendments are still in the hands of the offices that are examining them and will not be ready before Monday, at which point the rapporteurs, but also all the other senators, they will want to study them to make some changes.
The most probable could concern the referendum (quorum and introduction of the proposal, on the joint initiative of the Democratic Party) and the election of the President of the Republic. In fact, the need to further modify the text released by the commission seems to be gaining ground among supporters of the reform: "the text needs improvement," said Bruno.
Instead, the rejection of the Anci arrived outside the Palazzo: "The number of mayors envisaged in the new Senate of the Regions is inadequate and the method of election that passes through the regional councils is not correct", said Piero Fassino, according to whom 21 there are too few mayors "compared to more than 8 thousand Municipalities represented".
