The electoral law at the final challenge, the declarations of vote are underway

The declarations of the final vote on the reform of the electoral law begin in the Chamber. The final vote by secret ballot is expected no earlier than 12.30 and the benches are still partially empty.

For the government currently present, among others, are the ministers Elisabetta Casellati, Eugenia Roccella, Orazio Schillaci and Gianmarco Mazzi. All the center-left leaders elected to the Chamber have signed up to speak, from Elly Schlein (Pd) to Giuseppe Conte (M5s), from Angelo Bonelli (Avs) to Riccardo Magi (+Eu). But other parties have also lined up their big names at Montecitorio: Giovanni Donzelli will speak last for FdI, Maria Elena Boschi for Iv, Matteo Richetti for Azione.

Yesterday the Chamber approved the third confidence placed by the government on the first 3 articles of the law. Meloni says she's 'don't worry'. The opposition calls for manual voting with balls to prevent the majority deputies from being 'controlled'.

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"Trust is blatant blackmail, you know that without the trust they have imposed on you" this reform would not have had the votes to pass, as demonstrated by "your colleagues who will monitor you while you vote", the leader of Più Europa, Riccardo Magi, said during the debate. This law is "an anti-democratic twist, it will be so even if it rewards the opposition, a clear violation of the prerogatives of the head of state", he continued. "Stand up, disobey. Do the right thing for democracy. We will vote no." +

Magi reported that "130 people joined" his protest "fast" and "almost 40 thousand signed the appeal to the President of the Republic. We trust in the assessment that the President of the Republic will make", he added. On Omnibus, on La7, Magi had underlined that today 'we move from the terrain of political struggle to the judicial one with appeals to the courts and therefore to the Constitutional Court'

"This is not an electoral law: it is a desperate attempt at self-preservation by the caste. Meloni changes the rules of the game when the game is about to end in the most cowardly way possible: by dramatically raising the thresholds of signatures needed to stand for elections. A barrier built specifically to protect those who are already in the halls of power and keep out anyone who wants to challenge him. It is anti-democratic and senseless" declared the M5S MP Chiara Appendino speaking on the program Radio Anch'io (Radio 1).

"At the first reading we had chosen an abstention which I had defined as constructive but in the meantime the text has changed and further guarantees have been introduced for Trentino", "concrete" results for which "our vote changes but our position does not change which leads us today to vote in favor of a law which does not weaken the representation" of minorities but "protects it, consolidates it and projects it into the future". SVP MP Dieter Steger said this when announcing his vote in favor of the electoral law in the Chamber.