Renzi Alfano: ‘do not tripping’. But the prescription is … – The Express

Mediation in the end is not excluded. But at the time, on justice, in the majority’s clash, with their faces fierce. L ‘ Ncd Alfano , with the leader at the House Judiciary Alessandro Pagano, vote in committee against the reform of the prescription and even threatening the government crisis, outlining a rift that “threatens to send home the Government Renzi. “

The premier, for his part, says that” Alfano can not tripping on justice “, he need not worry.

The bone of contention, it is first of all lengthening time limitation for the most serious crimes of corruption: the House, in fact, in the Judiciary Committee, has just approved an amendment wanted by the government in which they grow, from a quarter to a half more than the maximum penalty prescribed by law, the times in which the offense is prescribed. But the reasons for the anger alfaniana are beyond the amendment, also involve the work of the Senate, where he examines the anti-corruption bill (which also contains the reform of false accounting, another cause for resentment): a Palazzo Madama, in fact, the Judiciary Committee, has just established an increase in the statutory penalty for that crime, from eight to ten years.

In conjunction of the two measures, including reform of the other rules of prescription as a whole, it turns out that the time for which a crime of corruption is prescribed would double (10 to 18 years). It is a total clampdown deemed excessive, and in truth not only by centrists.

An agreement is possible

 Here, then, that behind the faces fierce, is already peeking a possible compromise. That explains both the optimism with which the minister said Woods, in full chaos, that “the agreement is near,” is the phrase otherwise cryptic Deputy Minister of Justice dell’Ncd Enrico Costa (“the text will be another”) . Sources Pd Judiciary Committee explained that, in view of the landing in the Chamber of the reform of the prescription scheduled for March 16 (in committee work is substantially completed), it would be “reasonable,” “a little ricarare ‘rising time limitation “,” correlating it with the simultaneous increase of penalties decided by the Senate “:” The commission thinks the maximum penalty in force, which is eight years.

 But if the Senate confirms to bring punishment to ten, it is not unfair to speculate a bit lower again ‘prescription, maybe bringing it back to the maximum sentence plus a fourth, third or more. ” In this way, it would have satisfied both the request of the centrists, the will confirmed by the Keeper of Orlando “safeguard the specificity of the crime of corruption”, while holding the crackdown but do not overdo it.

The reform divided into many streams

 The games will be made in the next few days, so you have a ready answer later this month. If the 16 fact the reform of the prescription will arrive in Parliament in the House, 17, the anti-corruption bill arrives in the House to the Senate , and the government will orchestrate things so that the right hand knows what makes the left hand: harmonization which has been lacking so far. As they know the engineers who have studied the various measures: a closer look, he points out, “the problem is in the unique approach of the executive, who presented the measures many months after the announcements.” By doing so, instead of having a comprehensive reform, the government has come to proceed via amendments to the various texts, with duplication and fragmentation that you see very well in the case of corruption (with the Senate that deals rimodularne the penis, and the Chamber that deals rimodularne times prescription), but which is also the origin of the sacrosanct protests of Senate President Pietro Grasso, who has just renamed the measure that bears his signature on “bill Penelope”, for many times in which it is done and undone.

The spectrum of start from scratch

 Even the law on false accounting, contained in the anti-corruption bill, suffers from the same defect. And ‘rumors for weeks that run on the popular government amendment that would rewrite it, but, in addition to the various divisions of merit, the text has not yet been presented because it should contain a reference to a law, that the tenuous nature of the fact, that is not yet law (legislative decree lacks the final go-ahead of the government). What technically impossible. So, lacking a word on paper, the legislation remains a hostage of opposites tug of those who would like softer (Confindustria) and those who would like more rigid (left Pd), with clashes and complaints, however, based on rumors; while in the Judiciary Committee Forza Italy continues its stonewalling and all parliamentary groups are protesting because the government will end up not presenting that amendment to them, but directly in the House, with its “weak point of democracy.”

This way, you increase a chaos that is already at very high levels: the more so because many predict that the Judiciary Committee will not end in time examining the anti-corruption bill, and then in plenary, on 17 you will have to start over, again from Grasso text presented to the Senate more than 700 days ago. So much to Penelope.