(Finance) – It closed with the meeting with the Democratic party the day of comparison of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, with the oppositions on the institutional reforms in the Chamber.
“This reform for us it is not a priority of the country”. So began the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein who, however, assured that the proposals on stability and representation “will be carefully evaluated”. “On the other hand, the institutional figure of the President of the Republic is not touched”, declared Schlein who added that “the form MP it needs to be improved but not abandoned. The PD secretary said that the PD supported the “no” to the direct election of the President of the Republic, no forms of premiership or figures such as the Mayor of Italy. “We are reformists And innovatorsthat’s why we brought our own proposals – he added -. There are some urgent and necessary corrections.”
Schlein explained that the PD supported the need to reform the Law electoral to overcome blocked lists, the provision on the German model – “to increase stability” – of the institute of constructive distrust, the limitation of decree urgently and the strengthening of referendum institutes and popular initiative laws. “Yes, but only if the comparison is true – declared the secretary of the Democratic Party -. If they have already decided how it ends, it is not a comparison”.
The 5 Star Movement delivered to the Prime Minister 11 proposals. “We told Meloni that coups in the redefinition of the constitutional structure are not recommended,” said the president of the M5S, Giuseppe Conte, at the end of the meeting. “Aware that the problem needs to be solved instability of governments, but no shared solution emerged at this meeting. The picture must remain balanced, that is, it must not mortify the parliamentary role in mediation, nor the function of the President of the Republic”, he added, underlining that he was open to the creation of “a parliamentary commission set up ad hoc, we recommend this path”.
Also Charles Calenda he said he was available “to collaborate, for the obvious reason that, as is known, we too have tried to embark on a path of reform. Not only that. We share the need to have greater stability of governments, the need to have greater efficiency of the overall state apparatus, which is not only the central government, but also the local authorities. For this reason we have tried to define the perimeter within which a collaboration is possible. For us there is an absolute red line, which is the guarantee figure of national unity and of the Constitution, which is the President of the Republic”.
During the declaration of Action-Italia Viva-Renew Europe GroupCalenda stated that “the President of the Republic, in a country divided on everything, is the only institution that truly guarantees unit. In our opinion, going to touch it and politicize it would be a very serious mistake”. “Now that we are in opposition we will not do what the premier did to us when we were in government: no prejudicial opposition”, he added Maria Elena Boschi parent company of Italia Viva. “For us there are two fundamental issues. The first is the direct election of the premier on the model of Mayor of Italy“, he added, “a reform of the form of government cannot be separated from overcoming bicameralism”.
Harder the judgment of +Europe and of Green and Left Alliance. For Benedict of the Widow (+Europe) Meloni “said that he wants to go to the end on the basis of the electoral mandate but he didn’t understand what this electoral mandate consisted of, because a constitutional reform is not done like this, you can change everything by changing a comma. We didn’t understand whatever the proposal, the objectives are very uncertain and can be achieved by doing everything”.
“We have communicated the unwillingness to support presidential reforms with direct elections, the figure of the President of the Republic must be protected”, instead reported the co-spokesman of the Greens, Angelo Bonelli, after the meeting. “We have expressed our clear opposition to presidentialism, to semi-presidentialism, to the premiership. All hypotheses that insist, once again in our country, on modifying our Constitution as a response to the problems. Clearly, any effort in this direction is not ended well, we have been working in this direction for 30 years: to strengthen the powers of the executive to the detriment of Parliament”, added the other co-spokesman, Nicola Fratoianni.
The meetings were also attended by the vice presidents of the Council, Matthew Salvini And Antonio Tajani, the Minister for Institutional Reforms and Regulatory Simplification, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Luca Ciriani, the undersecretaries to the Prime Minister, Alfredo Mantovano and Giovanbattista Fazzolari, and the constitutionalist Francesco Saverio Marini.