The conference of the group leaders of the Chamber is convened for tomorrow at 14
.
Among the hot topics that will have to be addressed in the meeting, which will have to launch the calendar of the proceedings for September,
the reform of the electoral law
: the Democratic Party asks that it be examined before the referendum on September 20.
And we are moving towards the adoption of the basic text on the electoral law next Tuesday
: this is, according to what we learn, the direction that the Bureau of the Constitutional Affairs Commission is taking on the proposal of President Giuseppe Brescia.
The issue of the referendum at the center of the debate: "Personally, I am very perplexed - said
Silvio Berlusconi,
leader of Forza Italia -. The cut of the parliamentarians is a choice that we had already adopted since 2005 with our constitutional reform which, however, is was canceled by the left. In this case, however, it is a Russian cut, that is to say, which is not part of an overall reform of the functioning of the institutions and which will probably have the effect of reducing the spaces for democracy with Regions that cannot be represented in Parliament as parliamentarians from minority parties. And also for this reason I am still reflecting, which he asked me about my vote, naturally without prejudice to the absolute freedom of vote for our militants and for our elected representatives ".
"Più Europa is the only party in Parliament that has always voted no to this populist, anti-political and anti-parliamentary non-reform imposed by the M5s and which will convince everyone to vote no and ask everyone to vote no," said
Benedetto Della Vedova, secretary more Europe
.
"We ask to vote no - added Della Vedova - even to those like the Democratic Party, who have changed their minds. It is not from this linear, brutal, grillino cut, that something good and better can come out for Italians".
"Italy is a model and a forerunner to the great European institutional reforms. Germany and France in fact copy the Italian reform to cut the number of parliamentarians and aim to reduce the waste of politics - explains
Tiziana Beghin
, head of delegation of the Movimento 5 Stelle al European Parliament - making it more responsible and closer to the citizens, just as it would happen in Italy if yes were to prevail at the next referendum. In Germany the great coalition of CDU and SPD has reached an agreement on the gradual cut in the number of parliamentarians which will be completed until 2025. For Merkel it was unbearable to see a Bundestag made up of 800 members. In France a bill presented by the En Marche government reduces the number of parliamentarians by a quarter: from 577 to 404 members. With slimmer chambers we will increase the productivity of our representatives and we will say enough to the chronic absentees who use politics as if it were the goose that lays golden eggs
or".