Government defeated in the Senate on school – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published June 10, 2015 at 9:55.
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ROME – Everyone looked to the left and, instead, to trip has come from the center. The false start in the Senate of school reform in a few hours from the direction of the Democratic Party in which Matteo Renzi has granted to the minority of his party fifteen days to agree on changes to the text was staged in the afternoon in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Before voting, the first stop. The government has in fact gone in the opinion of the constitutional bill on the “good school” has ended in a draw (10 to 10 out of 28 members) but for the rules of the Senate is tantamount to a rejection. Only an oral opinion and not binding but still very bad omen for the parliamentary process.

A parry is not enough forcing institutional democratic president of the Committee Anna Finocchiaro (Pd) which, instead of as a refrain as usual, he voted yes. He weighed more than the no of Mario Mauro, president of the Popular in Italy but joined Gal, who recently announced its exit from the majority: “From a constitutional point of view the reform of the good school is poorly written, therefore let’s stop and riscriviamola better, “he argued the former Cabinet minister Monti.

But there was only the vote of former MEP Forza Italy and PDL. Have contributed to the accident absences in most: in particular those of the three members of the popular Area (Ncd-UDC), Gaetano Quagliariello, and Andrea Augello Salvatore Torrisi. A request for attention to the premier? In the evening intervenes Renato Schifani, President of the Senate of the centrist group, to resize the episode: it was a “a random and purely technical, to which we must give a political value” and the contribution of Ap for approval the reform will not fail. But if today, as it seems, Angelino Alfano will meet his parliamentary groups to make things clear, we can say that behind those desertions hides a political embarrassment. The show brings Renato Brunetta: “For the government it is the beginning of the end. We had told Renzi that would have been a Vietnam and he joked. Vietnam now it is experiencing. Welcome and best wishes “sentencing the leader of Forza Italy in the House.

On the horizon waiting to Renzi is the internal resistance of the minority of the Democratic Party that, despite the assurances given Monday by Secretary (who also focused on institutional reform) remains skeptical: “How do you change practice standards, be prejudiced. So is this uncertainty that will be dissolved only by the events of the next few hours, “it is the comment of Guglielmo Epifani. Therefore we study the cards fall: between ideas give birth in a first meeting between dissidents there would be to launch a referendum among members of the Democratic Party with the implicit belief that the consultation would sanction a rejection of the bill in school. But yesterday the Democrats – after a long (three hours) meeting of the parliamentary group in the Senate to take stock after the leadership – have shown firmness. “The Democratic Party was represented at the Commission for Constitutional Affairs of the Senate of all its members, who commented positively on the opinion to be expressed,” emphasizes Doris Lo Moro, parent committee. Signal appreciated by the premier. ‘S compare the reform but we carry it home, “is the position reiterated again yesterday. An optimism that comes perhaps from the possibility of a “rescue blue” by a group of MPs led by former coordinator of the PDL Denis Verdini (see article below). A breath of fresh air on the numbers of feeble majority in the Senate.

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