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DISCUSSION AT PALAZZO Madama

Milan , April 1, 2015 – 11:41

     
     
 

It was approved , by secret ballot, with 124 votes in favor, the ‘ Article 8 of the anti-corruption bill. The false accounting, which was weakened by the Berlusconi government in 2002 and which had been revised in 2005 with the law 262, back then, to be a crime without exception: the new wording of the penalties for “false company” provide one to five years imprisonment ( READ the full text of the article). Do not have passed the amendments of Sel and Alloy (a similar one senators Pd was withdrawn before the vote) proposing instead to raise the threshold to two and six years old, change that would make possible the use of wiretaps. Green light also all ‘Article 9 (which provides that, always in relation to false accounting for non-listed companies, there is a reduction of sentence in the case of minor facts), to’ Article 10 (fixing the penalty of imprisonment from three to eight years administrators listed companies who have been guilty of false company) and to ‘ Article 11 (on fines in terms of shares for those responsible for false accounting. “

Forza Italy voted against

ratings contrary to ‘Article 8, one of the most important and debated the measure, were 74, 43 instead abstentions. Before the secret ballot, Peppe De Cristofaro of Sel announced classroom abstention explaining that “false accounting deserved a very different setting and not a compromise.” Vote against Forza Italy, expressed by Senator Giacomo Caliendo, who spoke of an “article unconstitutional” and a “standard propaganda” of the government.

Majority faint

Voting proceed thrilling for the majority that in some votes of the morning held only briefly. Article 8, for example, the difference was only seven votes, whereas the Senate abstention is equivalent to a no: 124 yes to 74 no countered and 43 abstentions, for a total of 117. The same was happened to an amendment of the forzista Caliendo, rejected only by five votes and thanks to several absences in the pews blue; and Article 10, passed by four votes of difference. The 5 Star Movement, among others, denounced the “pianists in action ‘or senators who vote for the neighbors bench absent, and the controversy erupted.

April 1, 2015 | 11:41

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