Marcello Pera withdrew his amendment to the premiership on the opposition statute which provided for the figure of the "Head of the Opposition" The decision was announced in yesterday's evening session of the Senate Constitutional Affairs Committee. Pera: "Since the political prerequisites for a unanimous vote no longer exist, I preferred to withdraw it and transform it into an agenda" The amendment established that "the Head of the opposition is elected, on the basis of a programmatic statement, by the members of Parliament who have declared that they belong to the opposition" The regulations of the Chambers regulate the methods of election and powers, in particular with reference to the formation of the agenda of the Chamber.
The regulations also determine the powers of other parliamentary opposition groups. The opposition, despite appreciating the intention of the amendment, declared themselves against it. Dario Parrini of the Democratic Party underlined that the opposition amendments that would have really created counterweights to the elected prime minister had been rejected. Peppe De Cristofaro (Avs) resorted to irony: "I am already against the concept of the Chief, and the elective prime minister"