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The CDM will meet for today at 4 pm an ad hoc decree for Puglia

2020-07-31T13:13:34.185Z


On the agenda the decree with urgent measures on gender equality in regional electoral consultations (ANSA)The CDM is convened at 4pm. The decree with urgent measures on gender equality in regional electoral consultations is scheduled for the agenda. Until shortly before the announcement of the convocation of the Council of Ministers there were ongoing talks, both nationally and in Puglia, between the center-left and the center-right to find an agreement on the double gender preference to be introduced...


The CDM is convened at 4pm. The decree with urgent measures on gender equality in regional electoral consultations is scheduled for the agenda. Until shortly before the announcement of the convocation of the Council of Ministers there were ongoing talks, both nationally and in Puglia, between the center-left and the center-right to find an agreement on the double gender preference to be introduced immediately into the Apulian electoral law.

Yesterday evening, the Conte government had decided to grant Puglia another chance and awaited a possible new convening of the regional council to give the go ahead to the double gender preference that the Apulian assembly last Tuesday failed to approve for the the legal number is lost.

"We cannot accept - is the aut aut of Prime Minister Conte - that the Puglia Region does not transpose the fundamental principle of equality between men and women for access to elective offices. The State cannot go backwards on this point".

The Prime Minister, acknowledging "the willingness of some regional groups to urgently approve the rule", waits "for the process to be completed in the next few hours", but the "government", he warns, is ready "to exercise the substitute powers" . There are two hypotheses currently on the table: a decree law or the appointment of a commissioner. It is now a race against time to adapt Puglia's electoral system to national legislation, without incurring appeals that could cancel the outcome of the elections. The Conte government has prepared a draft of the measure that has already received the positive opinion of the Attorney, but political reflections are still underway within the yellow-red Executive. The most accredited hypothesis is that of a Decree which obliges Puglia to already foresee for the September Regions the double gender preference and the inadmissibility of the electoral lists that do not respect the 60/40 gender proportion.

It is not excluded, however, that to "get around" the obstacle represented by possible appeals, the Executive appoints, again by means of a decree, a commissioner who will then replace the regional council. This solution is advocated by Italia Viva and by Minister Teresa Bellanova: "There is only one way to go - says the owner of Agricultural Policies - to appoint an ad hoc Commissioner by decree of the national government with the exclusive objective of immediately adapting the law election and ensuring equal opportunities for men and women in the new Regional Council ".

In Puglia, however, there is pressure from both sides on the president of the regional council, Mario Loizzo, to convene a new assembly by August 5 to approve the rule on gender equality. Today, the entire center-right deployment, but also "pieces" of the center-left coalition, asked for it again. "It must be the regional council to modify the electoral law of Puglia to introduce gender preference", warn Raffaele Fitto, candidate president of the center-right to the Puglia region, together with Lega, FI, FdI, Udc and Nuovo Psi. The opposition leaders continue urging "the Prime Minister, Mario Loizzo, to immediately convene the meeting: the whole center-right - they highlight - is ready to vote on the proposal of the Emilian Council, as approved by the Commission". The same request to convene a new meeting of the Council came from the "Senso Unico" civic which supports the outgoing governor Michele Emiliano.

Source: ansa

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