Skip mediation, the Senate Freezes – The Press

Skip mediation, the Senate Freezes – The Press

30/07/2014 – reforms. Tensions rise

negotiation fails, hard tussle on secret ballots. And Lots attacks Sel: stop at local alliances

Senate bogged down and risk rupture between Pd and Sel also for local alliances. Yesterday was the day of sabers, as what the President of the Italian Fencing Federation gave Renzi during the meeting with the national team after the success of the World Cup in Kazan. “The scripted show that some senators lose time for fear of losing the seat,” he thundered Prime Minister who sees away the goal of constitutional reform. Renzi had hoped in the mediation of Chiti, who had proposed to withdraw the bulk of the amendments in exchange for the postponement of the final grade in September. “But since this move if the letterhead is the government – said Civati ​​- jumped all: a grave mistake.”

Renzi was hoping that would be enough openings of the speakers Finocchiaro and Calderoni on the number of signatures for a referendum on the immunity and senators. He hoped also that enough of the letter sent to the senators of the majority by which he had sent a message to Sel: I am ready to discuss the electoral law of electoral threshold and preferences. But there was nothing to do in any mediation failed and the hall of the Senate yesterday turned into a ring with mutual accusations, interventions continue to block almost 8000 amendments. For hours we discussed whether to allow the popular election by secret ballot of the Senate: Sel in favor, and 5 Star League against the majority and Forza Italy. The fear of the government that was in the secret of the urn is sfogasse that part of the majority of the same senators who do not want to delete the equal bicameralism.

At the end, the President Grasso decided that the secret ballot can not be admitted for the whole of Sel amendment which provided for both the protection of linguistic minorities in the mode of election of the

Senate.

From the opposition benches shouted “you can not, this is a dictatorship, you are afraid of a secret ballot.” But faced with the decision of the President of the Senate, the parent Sel De Petris withdrew the amendment that had ignited the discussion. But to bring a smile to the government was the rejection of another amendment Sel, that aimed to reduce the number of deputies. This rejection was dragged into the trap of decadence 1400 amendments, thanks to the so-called rule of “kangaroo”. Renzi satisfied: “The kangaroo works, we are at a quarter of the amendments. We understand that many of these amendments were only a provocation. ”

At this rate, however, will not be easy to get to the finish line on August 8. But it will go on indefinitely. Just “dramatized” of those who are afraid of losing the seat, says Renzi. “The Italians have asked us to change a political system that no longer works. We will keep the promise, without fear or give up. We go forward – said the prime minister – and the end will be the citizens in a referendum to judge who will be right and who was wrong. Our determination is stronger than their games. We go forward prepared to discuss with everyone but we will never be blackmailed by anybody. ” The hardest blow has been dealt to the party Vendola and he did the Secretary Lots accusing Sel to have a position of principle. “It is clear that in my opinion this precludes any future alliance, especially on the territory. I do not know about you, but I’m a political agreement with those who destroy the Charter would not do it. ” The answer Vendola not long in coming. The governor of Puglia argues that the senators of Sel ‘do not yield to blackmail the new Founding Fathers, Berlusconi and Verdini. ” The Democratic Party breaks alliances across Italy? “It would be the world’s fastest political change.”