
Last act by secret ballot in Montecitorio. Beware of the snipers and the threat of early elections by Prime Minister Meloni
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The Chamber faces the last vote by secret ballot on the new electoral law.
Everything is ready in the Chamber for the last vote, by secret ballot, on the electoral law. The final vote declarations are scheduled to begin at 10.30: all the center-left leaders elected to the Chamber are registered 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
«Today we move from the terrain of political struggle to the judicial one with appeals to the courts and therefore to the Constitutional Court. Unfortunately when this happens it is always the defeat of politics but there is this habit at the end of the legislature on the part of those who govern to manipulate the rules. I sincerely hope that there will be surprises from this morning's vote but there are very few possibilities and I consider it emblematic that in the approval of an electoral law that will definitively nail the lid on the coffin of parliament there have been indecent forms of intimidation towards the majority deputies, with video recordings in the chamber, party leaders acting as observers, ministers who say they will monitor the deputies' votes. It is very serious: in a democracy it is the parliament that supervises the government, not the other way around." The secretary of +Europa Riccardo Magi told Omnibus on La7.
Electoral law, last act. Today is the day of the definitive green light from the Chamber to the "Stabilicum", with the declarations of vote and the final vote scheduled by secret ballot no earlier than 12.30 pm live on TV. All eyes are on the possible snipers in the majority. But the boomakers believe it is unlikely that the law will be scuppered after Giorgia Meloni's "threat" of early elections in the event of a rejection in the secrecy of the ballot box. Serena? “I always am,” said the prime minister on the sidelines of Med9 in Split
Yesterday the chamber gave the green light to the third and final vote, the one placed by the government on article 3: 228 yes votes, 144 no votes and 3 abstentions. No shock in the majority. Immediately afterwards came the approval of article 8 of the law, the one on voting for out-of-office workers and caregivers, with 214 yes votes and no no votes. The opposition abstained (126 votes) on this part of the text. All the agendas, about forty, always presented by the opposition, were also rejected. The government had given some positive opinions, subject to reformulations, including a text by Riccardo Magi on the collection of signatures digitally, but in the end the proposals did not pass through the chamber. A negative opinion from the beginning, however, on the agenda of the Vannaccia supporters of Futuro Nazionale on preferences and gender equality.
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