An amendment by the M5s to the Autonomy bill being examined by the Constitutional Affairs commission was approved with 10 votes in favor and 7 against. President Pagano decides that the vote will be repeated on Friday. Pd: “Unheard of gravity”. The 5 Stars: “New vote is not in accordance with the rules”
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Chaos in the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber during the vote on the Autonomy Bill. With ten votes in favor and seven against, the government majority fell short during the voting on the amendments to the bill being examined by the commission. Chaos was created during the vote on the amendment first signed by M5s deputy Carmela Auriemma, approved with ten votes in favor and seven against. The Lega deputies were absent during the vote. The opposition reported that the president of the Commission Nazario Pagano (Forza Italia) did not recognize the vote and indeed decided that the vote will be repeated, sparking strong controversy. During the session there was a tense atmosphere with shouting between various representatives.
The M5S amendment
Last January 23, the text that implements the differentiated autonomy of the regions with ordinary statute received the first green light from the Senate. The amendment that the majority passed in the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber aimed to delete the word “autonomy” from the first paragraph of the first article of the bill under consideration. The text, presented by the M5s, affects the enunciation of the principles of “indivisibility and autonomy” of the proposed law.
Oppositions protest
“The majority was defeated in the Constitutional Affairs commission on the autonomy bill but President Pagano does not recognize the outcome of the vote”, said the democratic group leader in the Constitutional Affairs commission in the Chamber, Simona Bonafè. “We are faced with a very serious fact unprecedented, it is incredible that after the continuous forcing of the examination in the commission, the majority now wants to bend the outcome of a very clear vote. We will not accept this attempt to distort the outcome of such a clear vote”, she adds.
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According to the majority, the vote on the M5s amendment “had not been made official” and therefore had to be repeated. “The opposition proclaimed the result that the president did not proclaimed, so it has a lot of imagination,” says FdI group leader in the Chamber Tommaso Foti.
The vote will be repeated
The president of the Commission Pagano therefore decided that the vote on the M5s amendment on which the majority was defeated will be repeated. The vote, again according to what they report, had not been proclaimed by Pagano who, after a pause to delve deeper into the investigation, decided, given that there were precedents, to have the vote repeated. “The voting procedure has not been concluded. The Commission will resume on Friday”, Pagano said at the end of the session. For the president, since the voting procedure on the proposed amendment has not been concluded, on which – according to the opposition groups – the majority was defeated, the vote on the same amendment will be repeated on Friday.
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M5s in Pagano: new vote is not in accordance with the rules
Alfonso Colucci, deputy of the M5s in the Constitutional Affairs commission, then commented that “there are no procedural conditions to repeat the vote on the amendment”. A new vote, regulation in hand, could take place “in case of irregularities” and in any case “immediately, which means not only immediately but in the same conditions” therefore with the same number of deputies present at the first vote (17), contested by the majority. Furthermore, adds the M5S deputy, “the certification took place. It is not the responsibility of the president but of the secretary and our secretary, the only one present, verified and proclaimed 10 votes in favor and 7 against. It is a further procedural element” which would prevent the repetition of the vote.
Pd: postpone discussion, Pagano is not impartial
The Democratic Party, according to what we learn from dem sources, in the Constitutional Affairs commission no longer recognizes the impartiality of President Nazario Pagano and is asking to interrupt the session and postpone it until Friday to resolve the issue of the vote on the M5S amendment. His proposal not to recognize the voting procedure, it is explained, “does not exist in any article of the regulation, the outcome of the vote was clear and certified by the commissioners in the room and there is no need to repeat it”.
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