On the appointment of the president of the anti-mafia commission, the Pd-Pdl political agreement goes up in smoke and the agreements fall apart. But the Pd candidate, Rosy Bindi, not supported by the Pdl, manages to prevail in the ballot and to be elected president of the bicameral assembly. 25 votes in favour, against 8 by Luigi Gaetti of the 5 Star Movement. The PDL commissioners do not vote. The group leaders of the Chamber and Senate, Renato Brunetta and Renato Schifani even go so far as to threaten to desert not only today's one, but all the sessions of the bicameral until the end of the legislature, in case "the president imposed by the Democratic Party and not a shared personality" is elected by all political forces”.
In the first round Bindi hadn't made it. In fact, he had obtained 23 votes (26 were needed) against 6 for Luigi Gaetti of the M5S and 2 for Raffaele Volpi. Thus Bindi went to the ballot with Gaetti who got 6 votes, 2 less than the M5S members. This at first made one think of a split in the Five Stars. But the deputy Riccardo Nuti specified that the six votes obtained in the first round of the ballot, out of a total of eight members available to the starred, represented the entirety of the group: "A senator is on a mission - he explained - and the candidate in the first round will not he voted himself". The fact is that the presence of the M5S commissioners guaranteed the quorum.
The Pd-Pdl clash over the Antimafia is not the only political tension of the day, an air of rupture can also be felt in the center party of Civic Choice which has convened a national executive for tonight in the Via Pioli headquarters. On that occasion the definitive rupture between the Casini-Mauro-Olivero trident and the axis that Mario Monti had put in place, formed by the Confindustria (the vice-president Alberto Bombassei and the treasurer Gianfranco Librandi), by the Montezemoliani (with in head Andrea Romano), by the ex-Pd of the liberal area (Linda Lanzillotta and Alessandro Maran) and by the ex-radicals, as well as liberals such as Benedetto Della Vedova.
Meanwhile Mario Monti, in a letter sent to the vice president of the Civic Choice Alberto Bombassei, with which he formalizes his resignation as president of the party, invites the party not to let itself be overtaken: "Whoever wants to 'surpass' the Civic Choice - he writes - sells it off after using it deserves your reaction. Civilian, of course, but strong”. And he adds: "My support for Civic Choice will not fail".
