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The reform was approved (227 votes in favor, 164 against), with the final vote by secret ballot. Applause from the majority. Opposition protests. Prime Minister Meloni: "Stable governments and greater participation mean more continuity, more responsibility and more ability to give concrete answers to Italians. And to those who hoped to see the center-right divided, today we respond with facts: we are united, compact and determined to carry forward the commitments made with the citizens"
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Decisive day for the electoral law: the Chamber gave the final green light to the reform (WHAT IT INCLUDES), with 227 in favor and 164 against, with the vote by secret ballot. Long applause among the majority benches. The opposition protested with signs bearing the words: "Scam law", "no to cheating, "with Meloni - healthcare + weapons". The leader of +Europa Magi evokes the appeals to the Consulta: "The battle moves to the courts". Satisfaction of Prime Minister Meloni: "To those who hoped to see the centre-right divided, today we respond with facts: we are united, compact and determined to carry forward the commitments made with the citizens. Keep going."
Today's milestone was reached after the government had gained confidence on 6 October by approving the changes to the first two articles of the text, with an open vote. Then yesterday, in the Chamber, article 3 (which modifies the constituencies of Merano, Bressanone and Bolzano from a territorial point of view) and article 8 (on the extension of non-resident voting to caregivers) were also discussed and approved.
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Gasparri: "The centre-right always shows itself to be united"
The president of the Foreign and Defense Committee of the Senate, Maurizio Gasparri, commented: "When tested by facts, the center-right always proves to be united and compact. It demonstrated this again today with an important test: the secret vote on the electoral law. And this is the difference that will also make us win the next elections. Compactness and unity in decisive moments, while the left argues on every theme and on every issue."
Venice, protest on the Accademia bridge against approval of the electoral law
Around fifty militants from Rifondazione Comunista-Sinistra Europea, Giovani Comunisti, +Europa and Giuristi Democratici symbolically blocked the Accademia bridge in Venice today to protest against the new electoral law. The initiative, explain the promoters, has also aroused the sympathy of some passers-by and tourists. "This initiative is the beginning. We will mobilize everyone against the transformation of the parliamentary Republic into a premiership and against the quadrupling of signatures requested from the lists of groups not present in Parliament, with the benefit of the Caste", declared Gianluca Schiavon, national head of Justice and Institutions and Veneto regional secretary of Rifondazione Comunista "We will also support the appeals presented in more than twenty courts in Italy", added Schiavon.
Bandecchi: "Electoral law is acceptable without the 450 thousand signatures"
For Stefano Bandecchi, mayor of Terni and leader of Dimensione Bandecchi, "the new electoral law is well framed, the only thing that is wrong is the number of signatures that must be collected. The principles are overall correct but 450 thousand signatures cannot be collected. With the 75 thousand signatures - he observed - it would have been a law in line with the others. However, I was surprised to see that several opposition parliamentarians voted in favor of the new electoral law, a sign that they are liked and, I repeat, without that number of signatures, it would have been completely acceptable."
Pd: "In the Chamber, expedients to make the vote clear, unheard of"
"The images that are circulating in these hours, with the stratagems used by some deputies to make their favorable vote recognizable, are a very serious fact that confirms, once again, the mistrust and internal divisions of the majority", says the democratic deputy, delegate of the Pd group, Andrea Casu. "The secret vote serves to guarantee the parliamentarian's freedom of conscience and cannot be transformed into a test of loyalty to the party line. If a deputy uses rolled up sheets of paper or other expedients to reveal his secret vote, we are faced with an issue that cannot be dismissed as a simple curiosity in the Chamber. It is unheard of that, at the very moment in which the freedom of voting of parliamentarians should be protected to the maximum, tools are put in place to control it and make it recognisable". The reference is to the report of a rolled sheet inserted on the left side of the button panel, the "yes" side, by some blue deputies before the vote.
Text transmitted by the Chamber to the government
The reform of the electoral law - according to what we understand - has already been sent by the Chamber to the government which, with the countersignature of the Prime Minister and the competent minister, will in turn send it to the Presidency of the Republic.
Meloni: "Surreal debates on the voting date, there's still a year to go"
"I don't follow these rather surreal debates on the date of the vote, also because we talk as if we were voting tomorrow. Gentlemen, there's a year left until the end of the legislature, so I'm concentrated, as you can see, trying to do my job, the others can discuss". Thus the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, speaking to reporters during the visit to Ascoli Piceno for the inauguration of the Saladini Pilastri palace. "The electoral law simply puts more power in the hands of citizens, it guarantees stability, we have seen the advantage it brings. A law made for Italy and I think it is a good thing", he added.
Youtrend: today with Stabilicum the center-right would win only together with Vannacci
With the Stabilicum today the centre-right could only win if it includes Futuro Nazionale with Vannacci in the coalition, the centre-right would gain an absolute majority in both houses of Parliament. Without it, the majority would go to wide range. This is what emerges from the latest Youtrend simulation, which translated the current balance of power between the political forces into seats in two alternative scenarios: Futuro Nazionale, Roberto Vannacci's party, inside or outside the centre-right. "In the most probable outcome today with Futuro Nazionale in coalition - underlines the opinion poll institute - the centre-right would obtain 223 seats out of 400 in the Chamber and 114 out of 205 in the Senate, exceeding the absolute majority threshold in both branches (201 and 103 seats respectively). The wide field would stop at 162 deputies and 80 senators, Action would get 12 deputies and 3 senators, while 3 seats per branch would go to other lists. The 5 senators for life complete the Senate". "If Futuro Nazionale ran alone, the picture would be reversed. The broad camp would win 221 seats in the Chamber and 112 in the Senate, thus obtaining an absolute majority in both Chambers. The centre-right would drop to 139 deputies and 70 senators, Futuro Nazionale would obtain 26 in the Chamber and 12 in the Senate, Action 11 and 3, the other lists 3 and 3. The comparison between the two scenarios shows the weight of the majority bonus foreseen by the Stabilicum. Divisi, center-right and Futuro Nazionale would add 165 deputies and 82 senators: 58 deputies and 32 senators less than they would obtain by running together. A margin that is enough to shift the majority from one coalition to another and which makes Vannacci's position one of the decisive factors of the next legislature.
Calenda: "I'm going back 30 years in terms of gender equality"
Action leader Carlo Calenda commented: "The worst result of this electoral law is to have fewer women in Parliament than today. We will therefore have a thirty-year turnaround in gender equality. As for the rest, I hope and hope that we will stop talking about electoral law while gas is at its highest, the geopolitical situation is worsening, the spread is rising because we cannot always waste time just talking about things that concern politics".
Meloni: "Reform made for Italy"
"I am satisfied with the approval of the electoral law", it is a reform "that puts more power back into the hands of citizens, guarantees stability, it is a good thing", said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni today in Ascoli. "It is a law made for Italy", says the Prime Minister.
How the new electoral law works, from preferences to the governability bonus
The “Stabilicum” - or “Melonellum” as it has been renamed by the opposition - is an essentially proportional system but with a governability bonus that is triggered under certain conditions, preferences but with blocked list leaders, threshold and name of the prime minister candidate indicated by the coalition (but not on the ballot paper).
New electoral law Meloni government, what it provides and what changes
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Survey, few know the electoral law
From the YouTrend survey for Sky TG24 focused on the new electoral law, it emerges that there is a certain satisfaction with this reform, but also that few people know about it. Among other surprising things, it emerges that the majority of Italians would be in favor of going to early elections.
Youtrend, few know the electoral law
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Radicals: "Blamely unconstitutional law, Mattarella must not sign it"
Filippo Blengino, Secretary of Radicali Italiani, commented: "An electoral law that is blatantly unconstitutional in spirit, which transforms the right to participate in elections into a privilege granted by the parties. We are talking about a law that is an insult to articles 3, 49 and 51 of the Constitution and which aims to preserve the party system, hindering the democratic participation of parties not present in parliament, with a misleading majority bonus and mechanisms that defuse the democratic game. A law unconstitutional in substance and unconstitutional in effects.
Malan: "Now the voters will decide, fear on the left"
According to the president of the senators of the Brothers of Italy, Lucio Malan, "with the new electoral law, governments will be decided by voters knowing who can be Prime Minister, and will no longer be the result of unnatural and ineffective palace agreements, and perhaps led by people not elected by anyone. This is why the left is afraid and launches absurd accusations of democracy in danger. The opposition says it wanted the vote for out-of-office candidates and preferences but, when it had the chance, it did not approve them and is now voting against the law that introduces them. What consistency!".
Ciriani: "New electoral law serves to give stability to Italy"
"The new electoral law that Parliament definitively approved today serves to give stability to Italy, because it guarantees governability and a certain majority chosen by Italians without any more palace agreements made after the vote. Whoever wins governs for 5 years and citizens will choose between parties or coalitions that will have the obligation to be clear before the elections, defining the government program and indicating who will be the prime ministerial candidate who will be proposed to the President of the Republic". The Minister for Relations with Parliament, Lucia Ciriani, stated this on social media. "After many years - adds the FdI exponent - we are reintroducing preferences, the voters will decide who goes to Parliament and we guarantee the vote to non-residents, a right principle that the left has always preached but which we have made become reality".
On paper eight fewer votes in favor of yes, groups present at 98.4%
Eight votes less among the groups lining up for the yes to the electoral law and eight votes more for those oriented towards the no. This emerges from a theoretical count, tabulations in hand, of the numbers in the Chamber. The entire majority was in favor of the measure, plus linguistic minorities, plus some deputies not registered with any component, 241 people in total, 240 subtracting the President of the Chamber who does not vote. If from this figure of potential "yes" we subtract 5 deputies belonging to the aforementioned groups who were either on mission (the prime minister Giorgia Meloni and the minister Giancarlo Giorgetti) or did not take part in the vote (the Northern League members Antonio Angelucci and Paolo Formentini plus Manfrred Schullian) we arrive at 235. That is, eight votes less than the 227 "yes" registered. The same eight votes, however, are in addition to the potential "no" of the centre-left, of the deputies of Futuro Nazionale and of others not registered with any component, net of the two on mission (Federica Onori di Azione) or who did not participate in the vote (the five-star Susanna Cherchi): instead of the expected 156, there were 164 no. The groups were present en masse at the vote with an average attendance of 98.24%.
Magi: "I am suspending the hunger strike, I trust in Mattarella"
"I suspend my fast, I strongly trust in the President of the Republic, to whom I wrote in recent days explaining the reasons for my initiative and also providing what, in my opinion, are the evidence of the unconstitutionality of this rule". The leader of +Europa, Riccardo Magi, said this outside Montecitorio after the vote on the electoral law. "Once again, our country has an unconstitutional electoral law. This is the summary of today, this is what we tried to avoid using all the tools, all the weapons of non-violence until the last moment - Magi denounced -. I want to thank the over 130 people who accompanied me in this fast which began on Wednesday last week, now in its eighth day, to try to make the government think and try to convince those in power at the moment that it is not convenient for anyone have an unconstitutional electoral law". "They didn't want to listen to these arguments," Magi underlined, "which would also have been in their interest."
Fratoianni: "Scandalous Right"
"Giorgia Meloni with a majority vote changes the electoral law a few months after the vote. It is an absolute scandal, and she does it to try to stay in power. She does it by trying to introduce the premiership, she does it in
