Roma — The relationship between them proceeds through tears and spite Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni. The last one today in the Senate chamber, called to examine the elections decree.
Well, the League not only re-presented the amendment to raise the limit of mandates for regional presidents to three, the so-called Zaia-saver already rejected in the Constitutional Affairs commission. But, with a blitz that displaces the government and infuriates the opposition, he also launches another to abolish run-off elections in cities with more than 15 thousand inhabitants. An initiative which, in addition to splitting the majority, puts the Brothers of Italy in serious difficulty, kept in the dark until the very end.
The party of Melons is in fact ready to cancel the double shift for mayors, considered penalizing for the right and rewarding for the left, but not like this: with an extemporaneous intervention on a decree of a technical nature that has nothing to do with the Tuel (the Consolidated Law on local authorities that regulates the election of first citizens) and without any comparison with other parliamentary forces. Especially not three months before the administrative elections which on 8 and 9 June will involve almost half of the Italian municipalities. Hence the embarrassment: voting against would have meant giving up on a reform that one wants to carry out anyway; in favor would have been a stretch because this is not the vehicle, nor the time to change an electoral system that has been in place for thirty years. Furthermore, the Northern League would have been victorious, as it acted without the knowledge of the allies. A third way is therefore chosen.
When at the end of the general discussion it is the speaker’s turn to express his opinion on the repeal of the ballots, the Melonian Alberto Balboni first he declares himself “in favor on the merits”, then upon input from the executive he asks the League to withdraw the amendment and transform it into an agenda. As it will then happen. “Such a significant act, which profoundly changes the rules in force in 70-75% of municipalities, would have needed greater in-depth analysis and discussion”, cuts the “brother” senator short. An annoyance, the of him, which is the measure of the success of Salvini: he was interested in sending a strong signal – if I want I’ll make you dance – and that signal arrived at Palazzo Chigi. The group leader makes it clear Romeoaccepting the invitation to fall back: «A few weeks before the vote it’s not the best, but for us it was important to raise the question».
A useful tool also to keep open the door to the third mandate for the governors, opposed by FdI and FI, once again returned to the sender. “But we stand firm, the debate doesn’t end here,” warns the Northern League member Paolo Tosatofirst signatory of the Zaia bailout.
An indication that the internal war within the government coalition is destined to continue. With the Lumbards determined to return to the attack, although not immediately: after the Europeans. When you also plan to follow up on the agenda to elect mayor whoever gets more than 40% of the votes in the first round. Finally approved only by the centre-right. While the opposition, hostile both in substance and in method, did not participate.
«The blitz on the cancellation of the ballots three months before the vote is a disgrace to the most basic democratic rules», the warning immediately launched by Elly Schlein. «An aberration, an unacceptable coup against laws that have proven to work well», the accusation of the dem Francesco Boccia: «The elections bill, which was only supposed to establish the date of the vote, has become a coup to settle scores within the majority that is now in tatters». Among other things, it was created “on the sly”, adds the colleague Dario Parrini. The 5 Stars is definitive Alessandra Maiorino: the League’s proposal “risks becoming another dirty law like Calderoli’s electoral one”.
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