Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Referendum “unpacked”, no Renzi – Il Sole 24 Ore

ROME

“The unpacking of referendun on constitutional reforms in more than one question in my opinion does not stand. At stake is the Constitution and the Constitution has rules, it is not possible according to most jurists unpack and do a referendum “à la carte” “. Again, I fear that there is a great Truman show: it unpacks unpacks or not? At Christmas you unpack! Then the Supreme Court will decide … In my opinion the question is simple: you want to continue with this Parliament or change? You want a system in which the regions continue with today’s powers or not? Eventually you clearly. “

The idea of ​​unpacking sets before he was born. And not just for the clear words spoken yesterday afternoon by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in the interview to Corriere.it, but also because the promoters of the proposal to divide the question into several parts do not have the numbers to be submitted by July 15, the Court of Cassation . Not 500 thousand signatures of citizens, of course, but even the signatures of 200 parliamentarians (one-fifth of the total) provided alternatively by the Constitution. Advancing first the idea of ​​unpacking, with the aim of making it easier for citizens to understand the complex constitutional reform on which they are called to speak, were the Radicals. Followed in recent days by all the centrist majority government (People’s Alliance and Civic Choice) and some members of the minority of the Democratic Party. But the non placet of the government in the persons of the same prime minister and the minister for Maria Elena Boschi Reforms (who yesterday met a delegation of Radicals to discuss the issue, insisting however that the government will not be “promoter” of the initiative), joined the no of leaders of the Democratic Party Luigi Zanda and Ettore Rosato ( “our MPs will not sign”) and no Forza Italy and 5 stars Movement is now wreck the unpacking assumptions, less than last-minute surprises.

What Renzi was contrary was known, although he himself in recent days, after the meeting at the Quirinale with Sergio Mattarella, had implied a non-locking ( “on this decide the Courts of Appeal, and in the case of use the View “). So how do you know that the prime minister is against the Italicum touch up, especially if the remodeling is to introduce the award to the coalition instead of the one to the list. He also reiterated yesterday in his chat with the Corriere.it: “For me, the election law there, and was not there before because rejected by the Constitutional Court. And the Italicum is a law that guarantees stability, with someone who wins and others lose, which for me is a good thing. Then if the Parliament manages to make another, they accomodino. They say they are worried “but so they can win the other.” It’s called democracy. ” Yet also in terms of possible changes all’Italicum Renzi and his in recent days had not understood a closure ( “we discuss, if there are the numbers in Parliament for a viable alternative to the law …”). The point is that the prime minister has no intention of peg away on issues which then deflate himself breaking with their centrist allies and with the minority of his party does not want to always say no to everything. The objective remains to get as serenely as possible to the referendum – which will probably be held November 6 to avoid the “bridge of October 30, as Renzi said the same yesterday – not putting himself against parts of the same majority.

for this change of strategy Renzi continues: no more references to the type of post-referendum “if I lose I leave politics,” nothing catastrophic combinations with Brexit. “I said I no longer open my mouth about my future – cuts short the question” to resign if he loses the referendum “-. No more on the subject within the unpacking, dell’Italicum, what I grew up. ” One that is prepared is a campaign all on merit, explaining the benefits of a reform that “reduces the policy and its costs” and that this “will also be rated by many voters of the Movement 5 stars and the League although not by their MPs ». As for the risk of a new Brexit, “I do not think it will be the same thing: in the UK there was a referendum on Europe. In Italy are 30 years old who says that must be made constitutional reforms because we have the largest and most expensive Parliament in the world and I will do everything to a vote on the merits. “

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