For the election of the President of the Republic, a 'drive in' seat will be set up dedicated to large voters infected or in isolation due to Covid.
The group leaders of the Chamber approve the technical ploy to allow deputies, senators and major voters who were in quarantine from Monday to write the name of the new President of the Republic on a ballot, ensuring the secrecy, contextuality and security of the vote as in the Chamber , and in coherence with the constitutional provisions safeguarding the freedom of the parliamentarian, linked specifically to the immunity of the seat.
Political forces like the 'Fico award', but it does not solve a fundamental problem: how to get infected citizens who, however "honorable", by law cannot go out, to the parking lot in Via della Missione from the place where they are? The issue to date would concern 19 deputies and 15 senators (this number, moreover, has tripled compared to Wednesday).
Roberto Fico, who as President of Parliament in joint session has the inconvenient dossier in hand, asks the government to take a "regulatory step" to solve the problem.
His request, also corroborated by a vote in this sense, on Wednesday, in the Chamber of the Chamber, is fully shared by all the groups.
Also because, the Pd, M5S and Leu group leaders point out, only if there is government intervention can a seat be made in via della Missione;
otherwise everything remains as it is.
Moreover, Davide Crippa (M5S) asks to have the green pass available to deputies who have become negative who have not yet received it, given that there are delays of several days in some regions.
But the government, in the group leader represented by Minister D'Incà, does not respond. Excluding at the moment the launch of an ad hoc decree, claimed by the FI, the possibility remains to modify the circular of the Ministry of Health of 13 December which allows some infected and according to particular procedures, to leave their home. Thus the result would be achieved not with ad hoc rules for parliamentarians, but with more permissive general rules to move positives from one domicile to another. However, there are no confirmations.
While waiting for the government to strike a blow, the 'action plan' for the 'drive in' seat is ready in Montecitorio.
Set up a few meters from the Chamber, it will be manned by two deputy secretaries assisted by Montecitorio officials who will collect the ballots and add them to the "salad bowl" in the Chamber before it is closed and President Fico begins the counting.
Having completed the large tent in the courtyard duly equipped with heating devices to minimize gatherings, the workers dismantle the voting stations set up for deputies in the Transatlantic, which from Monday will also be accessible to the parliamentary press, which will have limited seats in the stands to follow the vote (it should last five and a half hours) and the subsequent counting.
A circular restricts access to the floor of the classroom as much as possible, for which employees will need a special (and highly coveted) card.
"The 'machine' is ready: now there is little more than a weekend to understand if all those who have a ticket will be able to get on board", an expert Montecitorio official says slyly in the courtyard.
