It exploded chaos in commission Constitutional Affairs from the Room. The majority of centre-right it went down due to the absence of many Northern League deputies and an amendment of 5 Star Movement has been approved. But the president of the commission Nazario Paganoexponent of Forza Italiahe decided to have the vote repeated, obviously sparking protests from the opposition. With the result that the session was postponed to Friday: the amendment will therefore be voted on again in 48 hours. With the opposition obviously going on a war footing.
Tension in the House – TO Montecitorio a has been registered climate of great tension, amidst the screams of those present. The amendment was approved with 10 votes in favor and 7 against. This is proposal number 1.19, presented by the M5S, which asks for delete from article 1 the word “autonomy”. “A very significant amendment. Calderoli clearly noticed, he was present, it was embarrassing especially for the minister”, he comments Carmela Auriemma, M5S deputy who signed the proposal. The PD, according to what we learn, no longer recognizes the impartiality of President Pagano and has asked to interrupt the session and postpone everything until Friday. His request that Pagano decided to accept: “The voting procedure has not been concluded. The Commission will resume on Friday“, said the president of the commission.
Previous – For Pagano, therefore, 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. The politician’s decision Forza Italia it came after one break granted precisely to deepen the investigation: according to the president of the Commission the existence of precedents allows the repetition vote. The Forza Italia exponent’s reference is probably to the vote on sent to the rapporteur on the establishment of commission of inquiry on the Covid: on 17 January, in fact, the measure had not passed in the Social Affairs commission due to a tie (11 to 11), which for parliamentary regulations counts as one failure. However, the vote was repeated in the commission and passed, amid the anger of the opposition who had appealed Lorenzo Fontana: after 48 hours the president had the vote repeated once again. A dynamic very similar to that of today.
Opposition to the assault – The opposition, obviously, attacked Pagano. “The majority was defeated in the Constitutional Affairs commission on the autonomy bill but President Pagano is not recognizing the outcome of the vote. We are faced with a fact of one unprecedented gravity, 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”, he denounces Simona Bonafègroup leader of the Democratic Party in Constitutional Affairs Committee to the House. According to the Democratic Party, among other things, the proposal to not recognize the voting procedure “does not exist in any article of the regulation, the outcome of the vote was clear and certified by the floor commissioners and there is no need to repeat it” . For the leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber Chiara Braga the majority went down “in front of an incredulous Calderoli due to the total absence of the League, but does not recognize the outcome of the vote. We will not accept the dictatorship of the majority.”
The centre-right: “The vote had not been proclaimed” – “The opposition proclaimed the result that the president he did not proclaimso he has a lot of imagination”, claims the Fdi group leader in the Chamber, Thomas Foti. The same version as Iger Iezzi, Northern League group leader in the Commission: “Nothing happened, the opposition is wrong. The speaker Urzì had asked to speak and the order of work was therefore suspended, I entered exactly at that moment. There is little to argue about, as usual the opposition on the left is fake“, says the Northern League member. Completely opposite, however, is the reconstruction of Auriemma, the first signatory of the amendment which the majority rejected: “The there was a vote so much so that immediately after the voting the secretary stood up and certified the votes in favor and against. The president then stopped, he didn’t proclaimed it to try to recover. Only later did the missing majority colleagues arrive.” “I pointed out that the rules of the Chamber provide that, if it is believed that there have been irregularities – e there were none – the new vote takes place immediately. And immediately does not only mean on a temporal level but also ‘rebus sic stantibus’, that is, with the same subjects”, he says Alfonso Colucci, deputy of the M5s. “We are not willing to resume work in the absence of a pronouncement from the President of the Chamber and the Rules Committee,” he says instead Filiberto Zarattigroup leader of the Alleanza Verdi Sinistra.
The amendment: “Delete the word autonomy” – The proposed amendment proposes that the word “autonomy” be deleted from article 1 of the text on autonomy. The amendment reads: “In paragraph 1, delete the words: and autonomy”. This is the text in question: “This law, in respect for national unity and in order to remove discrimination and disparities in access to essential services in the area, also respecting the principles of legal and economic unitof economic, social and territorial cohesion, also with reference to insularity, as well as of principles of indivisibility and autonomy and in implementation of the principle of administrative decentralization and to encourage the simplification and acceleration of procedures, responsibility, transparency and distribution of competences suitable to ensure full compliance with the principles of subsidiarity, differentiation and adequacy referred to in article 118 of the Constitution, as well as the solidarity principle referred to in articles 2 and 5 of the Constitution, defines the general principles for the attribution to the ordinary statute Regions of further forms and particular conditions of autonomy in implementation of article 116, third paragraph, of the Constitution and for the modification and revocation of the same, as well as the related procedural methods for approving agreements between the State and a Region, in compliance with parliamentary prerogatives and Regulations” –
