Il third term the regional presidents split the government majority and compact, at least in the vote in the Senate, Pd e Movement 5 Stars. But in no time at all, the vote triggers bipartisan protest from the governors and divides not only the center-right but also the Democratic Party. In fact, it is the area that is responsible for rising up Stefano Bonaccini, president of the Emilia-Romagna Region which, in black and white, comes to speak of "units at risk". Three days before the test of the elections in Sardinia, therefore, the Constitutional Affairs commission of the Senate rejects the extension of the governors' mandates. The parliamentarians of FdI and Forza Italia vote against the amendment presented by the League: a proposal aimed at regional presidents after the Northern League itself's step backwards on mayors. Only Italia Viva stands alongside the Northern League senators. Instead, the opposition rejected the amendment, with FdI and FI: Pd, M5S and Avs united in voting against it. In all this, the premier Giorgia Meloni recalls that the third mandate "was not included in the government program" and reassures: "It is not a matter that creates problems for the majority". But the League does not give up and Salvini warns: "It will be discussed in the Chamber of Parliament which is sovereign."
Third mandate for governors: the Democratic Party is also split
After months of back and forth between Pd mayors and governors (who ask for the third term) and the secretary Elly Schlein (which slows down), it seemed that the truce had been signed. It didn't happen that way. Immediately after the vote in the commission at Palazzo Madama, Popular energy - i.e. the internal minority led by governor Bonaccini - has issued a very harsh stance: "The agreement reached in the leadership was not respected and the unity of the party was not safeguarded". The reference is to the agreement that had been reached in the Democratic direction on the secretary's proposal for a working group of the Democratic Party that would discuss an overall reform of local authorities and therefore also on the third term. The climate seemed to have changed. In a few hours, however, a real commotion took shape. In the morning there had been a meeting of the group in the Senate to decide the line to take on the vote in the commission and the climate had been described as "calm": all the senators had agreed to maintain an attitude of "clear opposition to the right-wing games." The distinctions, however, were on the "how": there were those who wanted to vote "No" and those, how Alexander Alfieri, of Energia Popolare, asked that the Democratic Party not participate in the vote so as not to make the party express itself in a manner clearly contrary to the third mandate. It seems to have been the case that ended the diatribe - so it was told Dario Franceschini, who asked to also look at the other oppositions, so as not to break the front with the Five Star Movement a few days before elections in Sardinia, where Pd and Movement support together Alessandra Todd.
