The directly elected prime ministership and the 55% majority bonus foreseen in the future electoral law are the most controversial points of a constitutional proposal that is off to an uphill start
How does Rosatellum work? What does majority mean? Is it proportional? What are blacklists? Can separate voting be done? Here are the answers to the most common questions
INTERVIEW WITH BRUNO TABACCI, Undersecretary of the Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Center - "The drama of the moment pushes us to unite around the Draghi government to help restore peace between Russia and Ukraine" but without forgetting the others…
A manifest appeal for a new electoral law of a proportional type but with a barrier was launched by a group of intellectuals with the signatures of Giulio Sapelli and Beppe Vacca
The reconfirmation of the award-winning Mattarella-Draghi couple at the top of the state makes Italy a country that is still reliable in the eyes of the world and the markets - The stability of the government and the legislature and the push towards a proportional electoral law will…
NEW PD SECRETARY ELECTED - "We don't need a new secretary but a new Pd that brings together soul and screwdriver and that is inspired by Delors and Prodi" said Enrico Letta, presenting his political platform, strongly…
The government majority has found agreement on a new electoral law built on the German model - the Germanicum - which, however, is already causing discussion: Leu against the 5% barrier. Meanwhile, the filing of signatures with the Cassation has been surprisingly postponed...
The mandate constraint evoked by Di Maio reconfirms the grillini's lack of sympathy towards Parliament - Now we need to think about an adequate electoral law: the ideal would be the French majority in two shifts but realistically the only way forward today...
It seems practically impossible for Parliament and the Consulta to endorse an impeachment against a President who said No to a minister in the full exercise of his prerogatives, just as it will not be possible to vote on any electoral reform for a simple reason: not…
For the first time, the number 2 of the League, Giorgetti, opens up to a government of all with a limited duration to redo the electoral law and vote in the autumn - Mattarella could give him a job after Wednesday's Pd Directorate and…
Mixed system, electoral ballot, constituencies and lists, gender quotas, Trentino Alto Adige: here, in short, is the new electoral law known as Rosatellum Bis.
After obtaining the go-ahead yesterday for the 5 votes of confidence requested by the government on the various articles of the text, the provision was definitively approved in the Senate with 214 yes, 61 against, one abstention - Controversy in the Chamber.
The hall of Palazzo Madama, amid shouts and shouts, approved the five votes of confidence placed by the government. Final approval tomorrow morning, Thursday. The reasons of the president emeritus Giorgio Napolitano who voted yes despite the perplexities on the appeal…
Amid disputes and controversies, articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the electoral reform received the confidence of the Senate.
To avoid the trap of secret votes, the government puts its trust in the Rosatellum 5 times in the Senate and Bersani's MDP drops out of the majority in protest
The debate on the "appointed and self-appointed" of the new electoral law is vaguely surreal and very hypocritical because since the time of the First Republic the scepter of the choice of representatives in Parliament has never really been in the hands of the citizens...
With 375 yes and 215 no, the Montecitorio hall approved the so-called Rosatellum bis: the majority of the Government and Forsa Italia, Lega, Ala-Sc and Dit voted in favor - Now the reform is being examined by the Senate
As expected, Montecitorio approved the trust in article 3 of the Rosatellum 2.0, with 309 yes - Between tonight and tomorrow morning the final vote (by secret ballot), then trust also in the Senate to shorten the time in view of the law of…
The government's decision to ask for confidence in the electoral law is perhaps not elegant but democracy is certainly not at stake as those who pretend to be ignorant would have us believe that all the reforms attempted so far have been…
307 votes in favor, 90 against. 9 abstainers. Tomorrow the vote on the third article and the final one by secret ballot.
The Minister for Relations with Parliament Anna Finocchiaro communicated this to the Montecitorio Assembly.
200 amendments will be discussed in the Chamber, which however are affected by the presence of the secret ballot, which could slow down if not definitively curb the approval process of the Rosatellum. The Democratic Party asks Gentiloni to ask for trust. Bond and Strength…
The deputy of the Democratic Party Emanuele Fiano deposited the text of the Rosatellum Bis or Rosatellum 2.0 in the Constitutional Affairs commission of the Chamber, which therefore becomes the official proposal of the PD - Ok of Forza Italia, against the M5s. Here you are…
The political storm that has unleashed on the Democratic Party after the ballots and which has Renzi's head as its objective begins awkwardly from the tail (the alliances) rather than starting from the identification of the contents and from a project for Italy, which does not…
The new calendar was established by the conference of the group leaders of Montecitorio - In agreement with the Democratic Party and the Popular Area, wrath of the Northern League.
Having rejected the German model, the electoral reform has, at least for now, left the calendar of parliamentary work - The next challenges for the majority are therefore the criminal trial, which has become law with the vote of confidence in the Chamber, but above all…
Electoral law, it's time for snipers. The Democratic Party: the reform is dead - ECB, Draghi confirms rates and Qe: "Inflation is worsening" - Russiagate, Comey (former FBI): Trump lied - UK elections: 5 post-vote scenarios and the consequences…
The departure of the new electoral law and the elections themselves pleases the markets, also invigorated by Draghi's confirmations on rates and Qe - Piazza Affari is the best stock exchange of the day and gains 1,46%: especially banks and savings are progressing…
The Milan Stock Exchange picks up speed after the impasse on the electoral law in the Chamber and is the best in Europe. All eyes are now focused on Mario Draghi's press conference on interest rates, growth and inflation. Good Banco Bpm, Bper Banca…
In the Chamber at Montecitorio, the snipers approved a (minor) amendment on which the contrary opinion of the rapporteur Emanuele Fiano (Pd) had arrived, who ruled: "The reform is dead and the 5 Stars killed it, here is the proof" -…
Santander is not enough: oil deflates the stock markets - Electoral law, M5S asks members to ok - Banco Popular is safe: Santander buys it for 1 euro - Tehran: two attacks, 12 dead (VIDEO) - Bentivogli, Fim-Cisl congress: " We don't leave…
The path of the electoral law in the Chamber becomes more complicated, after 66 snipers appeared in the first vote on the preliminary rulings - 209 amendments presented - The 5 Star Movement requested and obtained the postponement until Monday: "New votes...
The attention of political observers is focused on the new electoral law and on the risks for political stability but the dangers of fragmentation into too many groups arise from parliamentary regulations - However, the imperative electoral mandate, proposed by the grillini to avoid…
"It is simply paradoxical to discuss whether political uncertainty around Italy could unleash, more so going to early elections in the autumn or at the beginning of next year": this is the harsh comment of the President of the Republic emeritus, entering the debate on the law electoral and…
The text of the new "German-style" electoral law arrives in the Chamber on Tuesday - Two of the most important innovations: stop to blocked list leaders and drastic reduction of single-member constituencies. It holds the 5% threshold. With this reform…
The leader of the 5 Star Movement silences internal dissent and defends the new electoral law agreed with Forza Italia and the Democratic Party but also supported by the Lega and the Mdp - "So he chose the base" also…
There will be both nominal constituencies and blocked lists, but there will be only one vote, unlike what happens in Germany - There is no shortage of parachute candidacies - The most controversial aspect, however, is the 5 percent barrier.
With the favorable vote of 315 deputies, the maneuver gained the confidence of the Chamber - Thursday the vote in the Senate, where the majority is at risk given that the Mdp and the Civic Choice could vote against - The…
Tuesday 30 May is the day of the leadership of the Democratic Party, which confirms the intention to proceed on the German model for the electoral law - The final approval is also close and, at this point, the early elections - A lively day also on the…
The secretary of the Democratic Party confirmed the choice of the German model to the management, in agreement with Forza Italia, M5S, the Italian Left and the Lega, and the rapid approval of the new law: "Definitive yes by 7 July".
The German-style electoral law that Italy is about to adopt does not please the markets, which see strong risks of ungovernability: the stock market, spreads, banks and the euro are in fibrillation - Draghi holds firm on Qe - Btp auction today
the leadership of the Democratic Party is called today to approve the new German-style electoral law proposal, suggested by Berlusconi and accepted by Renzi with the convergence of the Five Stars, which provides for a proportional system with a 5% barrier: wrath…
Piazza Affari travels in deep red, with generalized declines affecting the major blue chips in the basket due to the growing political risk - But when the so-called Bear phase arrives, not everyone necessarily loses their own…
The leader of the industrialists, Vincenzo Boccia is asking the government for "a strong and perceptible measure" against unemployment. He proposes a "Pact for growth" to trade unions and political forces. "The recovery is there but it's slow. Twenty years have been lost" And on the…
The start of the discussion has been postponed for a week. Mediation is being sought with the prospect of approving the law by the end of June
The rapporteur Andrea Mazziotti withdraws the Italicum bis, under pressure from the party and from Renzi who are pushing towards a more proportional system - Constitutional Affairs commission Wednesday afternoon - Fiano: "We will present another text".
Milan heavy with Wall Street but Unicredit is queen - GDP Italy, EU: "Political uncertainty weighs" - Unicredit and Mediobanca, profits growing in the quarter - Electoral law, PD wants German model - Uber, EU lawyers: "We need a license as For…
50% majority, 50% proportional, threshold of 5% - This is the proposal of the PD in the Constitutional Affairs Commission - Dry the No of the 5 Star Movement and Forza Italia, ok from the Northern League.
The President of the Republic received the presidents of the Senate and Chamber, Grasso and Boldrini, at the Quirinale, urging Parliament to "promptly provide for the fulfillment of two important institutional fulfilments": the new electoral law and the election of a new judge...
Great fibrillation in the Democratic Party in view of Monday's leadership in which Matteo Renzi is ready to resign as secretary to arrive at the congress before the administrative elections in June - Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court deposits the reasons on the Italicum and warns…
The judgment of the Constitutional Court on the Italicum is expected between tomorrow and the following day: the ballot and the majority premium are at risk - Not only the future electoral law but the fate and duration of the…
In the traditional year-end message, the President of the Republic invited the political forces to cool tensions by recalling that early elections can only be held with clear and homogeneous rules that do not yet exist - "The…
The chairman in charge concluded the consultations. "I tried to reconcile urgency and listening, respect for all parliamentary groups". Final touches to the names, filings to the last. Unknown Fassino. Possible to be sworn in by tonight.
The hearing of the Constitutional Court on the electoral law has been set for January 24th. After the postponement to a date to be set, set for October, there is now a certain date, even if not close - Six possible profiles of…
After M5S and FI, former minister Giulio Tremonti, elected senator on the Lega lists, also supports the NO in the referendum, advocating a return to the proportional electoral system of the First Republic - But it wasn't the system that detonated…
The Chamber of Deputies approved the motion presented by the majority with 293 votes in favor and 157 against - The Pd minority, as announced in the early afternoon, did not participate in the vote - The motions of Yes, Centre-right were rejected…
The proportional system that characterized Italy in the First Republic is back in vogue for the grillini, which however risks being a remedy worse than the disease - A proposal that aims to underline, after the vicissitudes of the capital, the political diversity of…
It was in Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's plans and so it was: the new electoral law, the so-called Italicum, was approved in the Senate before the match for the new President of the Republic, which will formally begin on Friday.
This was established by an amendment to the electoral law presented today in the Constitutional Affairs commission at Palazzo Madama by some senators of the Democratic Party: "It is a safeguard clause".
"I'm not opening a discussion", Renzi said in an interview with La Repubblica: "The Italicum is in the classroom in December" and Berlusconi "has pledged to us to say yes to the package with the constitutional reform by January. that deal".
Preferential vote but lead list blocked, threshold of 3% and majority bonus to the list that collects 40%: these are the key points of the majority agreement on the new electoral law finalized at last night's summit…
At the end of yesterday's meeting between the two leaders, Pd deputy secretary Lorenzo Guerini said that "there was no talk of Consultation and CSM", but "an attempt was made to make progress in particular to…
From today's meeting between Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Renzi on the new electoral law, the Italicum, "a broad will to proceed" with a revision of the thresholds emerged, while "I would be more cautious on preferences", said the deputy secretary of the Democratic Party Lorenzo Guerini.
The presence of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is still uncertain - The Democratic Party reiterates its openness on the size of the majority bonus and on immunity, but the grillini do not seem to want to back down on preferences and will probably also reject a possible compromise we are talking about…
The Premier and the leaders of the Democratic Party write to the grillini: "The electoral law must be approved by 2014, while the constitutional reform in 2015, to then proceed to a possible referendum" - "Your position on immunity is very serious, we are ready to …
M5S certainly gave the top, but the bench is skipped because the Pd, after proposing 10 points to the pentastellati to discuss, demands from the grillini a formal and written answer as a basis on which to set up the debate -…
A meeting that lasted over two hours between Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Fi leader Silvio Berlusconi took place this morning at Palazzo Chigi - "With the Italicum we want to proceed quickly after the launch of the reform...
The grillino Luigi Di Maio speaks of the "Democratellum" (the proportional M5S proposal) as a "starting point" - Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, on the other hand, continues to focus on governability as a primary objective and recalls that the Chamber has already…
At 14 pm the expected meeting between the Democratic Party and the 30 Star Movement will take place in live streaming from Montecitorio - Neither Matteo Renzi nor Beppe Grillo should intervene - The tension is already high, after yesterday…
Boschi: "The land registry reform process begins with the establishment of commissions" - On the electoral reform, "there will be a reduction in the component of mayors and the component of regional councilors will increase" - "Grillo? First there is Fi, no change…
The appeal presented by the Milanese lawyer Felice Besostri was accepted by the court of Venice - The doubts concern in particular the 4% threshold - There is a precedent and it is precisely a sentence of the German Constitutional Court, which…
There were 365 votes in favour, 156 against, 40 abstentions - This concludes the first troubled parliamentary passage of the Italicum, which will reach the Senate today - Renzi comments on twitter: "Politics-defeatism 1 to 0. It is the sign…
The negative verdict of the Chamber of Deputies came with 299 deputies against and 264 in favor - Passed the amendment on thresholds and majority premium instead - Renzi to his followers: "I ask you, as Pd, to close today on the electoral law, or...
Curt speech by the premier and secretary of the Democratic Party, Matteo Renzi, to the deputies of his party after yesterday's surprise vote on women's quotas: "I ask you to vote on the electoral law in the Chamber by today, otherwise to explain outside…
The Premier in Fazio's living room: "On Wednesday in the Council of Ministers we will officially start a process: there is a commitment to reduce taxes by 10 billion euros", but it is still not clear whether the intervention will focus on personal income tax or…
With just 42 votes difference (278 against against 236 in favour), the Chamber rejected the amendment which aimed to introduce preferences with "gender alternation" - Meanwhile, Montecitorio's yes to the Italicum, initially planned for today, sled to…
The vote on the amendments to the electoral law proceeds, but runs into the first obstacle, that of gender equality - The current law provides for alternation on a regional basis, but without constraints on the order of the list - The proposed changes with…
After the Forza Italia summit at Palazzo Grazioli Silvio Berlusconi gave the go-ahead, but only for the Chamber of Deputies - The meeting of the Committee of Nine was moved to the afternoon, probable postponement of the work in the Chamber to tomorrow - Renzi:…
The electoral law arrives today in the Chamber: from 16 pm to vote - Prime Minister Matteo Renzi professes optimism, but the knot of the entry into force remains to be resolved: immediately, as the Berlusconians would like, or in 18 months, as he would like…
Three are the crucial issues of these weeks: electoral law, tax wedge and jobs act - Given the choice, it would be better for Renzi to bet everything on the labor reform, putting money immediately to expand the audience of beneficiaries of the unemployment benefit...
A success on this front would be welcomed by the market and, according to an estimate by the British bank Barclays, would project Italian government bonds upwards to reduce the gap with Germany to 150 points, levels…
Renzi had three ways ahead of him: Letta's relaunch, early elections and his ascent to the leadership of the government - Only the third is the potentially winning one on an electoral level and the only one that can pave the way...
The Premier met the Head of State this morning: "We talked about the prospects of the Government and the choices we can make. In the next few hours I will present my proposal for a coalition pact and I am convinced that it will convince all…
There were 154 yeses, 351 nos, 5 abstentions - The outcome of the vote on the constitutionality rulings was greeted with a long applause from the Assembly - The fear of many deputies was that behind the anonymity of the operation there could be hiding …
The text of the Italicum arrives in the Chamber in the Chamber and the deputies will vote by secret ballot on the four constitutionality rulings presented by SEL, Lega, Movimento 5 Stelle and Popolari per l'Italia - Anonymity is an opportunity for anyone who wants to weaken the…
The agreement between the Democratic Party and Forza Italia on the threshold to obtain the majority bonus has arrived, according to what was declared by some Pd exponents - Ok at 37% - The so-called Salva-Lega rule also passes: the minimum quorum for…
The expected majority bonus is of dubious constitutionality, because it does not meet the criteria of reasonableness required by the Consulta - Then there is the question of the minor lists, for which prohibitive access thresholds are envisaged - In theory, then,…
The new electoral system proposed needs to be simplified in the rules to guarantee governance by favoring the parties that will be able to gather the greatest support - For each constituency, a party should advance candidacies equal to twice the available seats, leaving…
