Prescription: summit at Palazzo Chigi. Here is the text of the 'Conte award'

Majority summit at Palazzo Chigi on the reform of the criminal trial and prescription. The representatives of the majority parties sit at the table with the premier Giuseppe Conte and the Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede (M5s): for the Democratic Party Andrea Giorgis, Walter Verini, Franco Mirabelli, Alfredo Bazoli; for Iv Maria Elena Boschi and Lucia Annibali; for Leu Pietro Grasso and Federico Conte.

A draft reform of the criminal trial with mechanisms to guarantee the duration of the individual degrees of judgment and the stop to prescription only if there is a conviction. This is the text developed by Bonafede and which was sent this morning to the majority parties by the Prime Minister, in view of the summit. The draft, as far as we learn, incorporates the "Conte award" proposed by the Prime Minister on the prescription. These are 35 articles with rules ranging from prescription to reform of the CSM

The draft, as far as we learn, incorporates the "Conte award" proposed by the Prime Minister during the last summit on the prescription. Among other things, a sanctioning mechanism is envisaged against the judge, when two and a half years have passed since the first instance sentence. As for the reform of the process, it is divided into a series of rules to guarantee short times, including tighter deadlines for preliminary investigations, a wider use of alternative rites, monochrome judges also on appeal. The idea would be to bring the reform to the Council of Ministers as soon as possible, perhaps as early as Thursday at 9 pm. However, among the DEM there are those who hypothesize that the "award" on the prescription is transposed into an amendment to the Milleproroghe. The unknown remains the judgment of Iv, very critical on the eve.

Doubts remain of Italy alive on the "Conte award". "Steps forward" would have been made on the draft reform of the criminal trial presented by Minister Bonafede, but some changes would still be discussed in these minutes. And for Italy alive, the issue of changes to the prescription would remain. In particular, "there is no sharing", explains a source, on Prime Minister Conte's proposal to stop the terms of the prescription for those convicted and instead for those acquitted to suspend it for two years in case of appeal of the sentence.