Electoral law in the Chamber: vote on preliminary rulings and fear of snipers

Montecitorio expresses its opinion on the opposition's constitutionality rulings, while the final vote will take place next week. The fear of the majority is linked to possible snipers, while the opposition continues to attack the reform for preferences, the leaders not alternating by gender, the prize and the indication of the Prime Minister

After the green light from the Senate, the final passage of the electoral law in the Chamber begins, in what is seen by many as the crucial point of the legislature given that - as said several times by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni - a misstep in the Chamber could not fail to have consequences. The first of the two secret ballot votes on the opposition's constitutionality rulings is expected late this morning, while the second, the final one, will be next week, between 7 and 8 October.

The fear of the snipers

The climate is therefore one of waiting, with the fear of possible majority snipers. Lega and Forza Italia are the least enthusiastic about the Stabilicum. Furthermore, according to some projections circulating among deputies, in the event that the center-right were defeated the reform would produce a drastic reduction in the number of elected representatives among the blue and Northern League deputies. And this time it will not be allowed to send 'controllers' of deputies from the press gallery as happened in July, when some employees of the FdI group shot some videos from the area intended for journalists: the central gallery is off-limits to staff, who can stay in the lateral ones, intended for camera operators, signing as always the 'Self-regulation Code' with which they undertake not to take improper photographs and video recordings of the progress of the work.

Criticisms from the opposition

In the meantime, the attacks from the opposition continue, criticizing the preferences, the leaders not alternating by gender, the prize and the indication of the Prime Minister. Against the increase in signatures, the leader of +Europa Riccardo Magi has started a hunger strike to at least obtain the collection of digital subscriptions, while the ironic names on the name of the law are multiplying: for Filiberto Zaratti of Avs it is an "Azzeccagarbuglium", and a "Macellum" for Elena Bonetti, who once again invites centre-right deputies to say no to a law that does not provide for gender quotas in the leaders. It is "unconstitutional" and, if it passes, "the Council will intervene", said the dem Federico Fornaro. A reform that "contains aspects of unconstitutionality" also for the five-star member Carmela Auriemma, the result of an "act of arrogance by the majority".