The 'mother of all reforms' could return to its origins by relaunching the polls as the only path forward in the event of resignation or no confidence of the prime minister, who prefers Melonia. The 'anti-reversal' rule (if the head of government falls, he can be replaced by a member of his majority) pushed by the League would thus be eliminated.
In addition to a few other targeted corrective measures, which would protect the reform of the premiership from overly vague interpretations and from the risk of a repeal referendum.
Changes that would have the imprinting of FdI and who knows if the pressing risks triggering another fuse in the centre-right.
To confirm the orientation, an authoritative source from Giorgia Meloni's party points out that ultimately the 'simul stabunt simul cadent' mechanism was "FdI's first choice".
Cited in the original version of the constitutional bill signed by Minister Casellati and then corrected to accommodate the ally's proposal.
But - according to the source's reasoning - in the meantime the League seems to have lost its interest in defending that rule.
The former Carroccio is tight-lipped and is soon preparing to receive the first approval for the main reform for the Northern League, that of differentiated autonomy.
The Senate is expected to vote on it on Tuesday afternoon.
At the same time, the game on the premiership is being played, again at Palazzo Madama: the discussion in the Constitutional Affairs commission resumes on Tuesday morning and will be full-blown
(it is on the agenda of the meetings at 2pm and then at 8pm, same thing the following day).
The road map provides that the basic text will be voted on by Wednesday, while the deadline for amendments expires on January 29th.
The acceleration that they want to give to the reform is evident, from the perspective of what the opposition have fiercely baptized as the 'barattellum', i.e. the ongoing exchange between the League and the FdI on Autonomy and direct election of the prime minister.
And precisely in a game of checks and balances within the coalition, the sprint of the Melonians would make sense, now, for the most trenchant option on the fate of the prime minister if he is disheartened: every government can only have one life
.
Or at most have a parliamentarian take over only in the event of the death or incapacity of the first.
The Prime Minister had said it clearly on 3 November: on the day of the approval of the reform by the Council of Ministers, she confessed to the press that she preferred 'plan A' but that she would leave it to Parliament's choices, without prejudice to the fact that the first option " it wouldn't meet my opposition," he reiterated.
Words that would have been confirmed days ago in a restricted summit at Palazzo Chigi - in addition to the leader, the undersecretaries of the presidency, the parliamentary group leaders and the president of the Senate were present - as reported by Il Fatto newspaper.
In any case, it is no mystery that FdI is working on changes to the text.
At work, the Melonian Alberto Balboni responsible, as rapporteur of the measure, with putting the amendments in writing.
The pact, in the majority, is that they will be shared and with the signature of all the center-right group leaders or just the rapporteur.
And in the middle of the week there will be a new confrontation, precisely to submit the variants to the allies and decide how to move forward.
FdI has also put the limit of two mandates for the head of government on the table: today the Casellati law speaks generically of a direct election for 5 years but the intent is not to exceed two consecutive legislatures,
which become three in the event of dissolution advance of the Chambers.
It is also considered to specify that the prime minister must be elected with 50% +1 of the votes, while the almost unanimous consensus is that the majority premium of 55% of the seats should be removed, referring to an ad hoc electoral law.
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