The Chamber rejected with 211 nos and 129 yeses the motion of no confidence presented by the opposition, the first signatory being the Action group leader Matteo Richetti, against the Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini.
Shield the two ministers without giving any more space to the "fairly unfounded theses" of the opposition.
The words of the FdI group leader Tommaso Foti explain the move with which the majority decided to reverse the order of the Chamber's work in order to
arrive immediately in the evening at the vote on the motion of no confidence in Matteo Salvini and then, in the morning, on the one on Daniela Santanchè.
The first was rejected with 211 nos and 129 yeses, and the rejection of the second is also obvious, even if the two events have different political implications.
Even within the center-right itself. The thorniest situation, also for Giorgia Meloni, concerns the Minister of Tourism. Among the majority deputies, no one has any doubt that the no-confidence vote will be rejected for the second time, as on 26 July in the Senate, when only the M5s, Pd and Avs voted in favour. This time Azione also calls for his resignation, in light of what emerged regarding the companies Visibilia, Bioera and Ki Group. Not Italy alive. "Santanchè minister has failed and we contest her on a political level. But we - explained Matteo Renzi - do not use the investigations to attack her".
The cold atmosphere around the FdI minister is reflected in the general discussion on the motion: semi-deserted chamber, at times only the university minister Anna Maria Bernini at the government benches. The undersecretary for Relations with Parliament, Matilde Siracusano, urges us not to "intermittently use" the separation of powers, because we "risk attributing to the judiciary the function of composing and breaking down governments". For days the center-right has been evaluating the possibility of postponing the vote, taking advantage of the congestion of measures in the Chamber. In the middle of the day the acceleration is decided. "We are waiting for developments", blurts out a leading FdI representative. Fear is filtering through for the news that could come from the Palace of Justice in Milan. The closure of the investigation into Visibilia for false corporate communications is expected in the next few days, and then the Prosecutor's Office - unless Santanchè requests to be questioned and proves otherwise - once the twenty canonical days have expired, will begin the request for indictment . If she has to face a trial, "the minister will make her own reflections", the refrain in the centre-right.
"We are guaranteed, after which - clarifies the Northern League deputy secretary Andrea Crippa - Meloni, who is prime minister and leader of FdI will decide when faced with an indictment". The case of Salvini is different, under accusation by the opposition for the agreement between the League and United Russia. In view of the vote concluded in the evening, the majority has precepted the deputies: no absence allowed for missions, some benches remain empty, the blue Marta Fascina and Antonio Angelucci of the League will be seen again in the Chamber. Several ministers (Roberto Calderoli, Giancarlo Giorgetti, Luca Ciriani, Gilberto Pichetto and Eugenia Roccella) follow the explanations of vote. Not the person directly involved, who after answering the question time in the afternoon leaves Montecitorio for "a meeting on motorway concessions". An absence stigmatized by the opposition. "It's very serious", for Angelo Bonelli (Avs). "Did he run away?", the line from Davide Faraone (Iv). The Northern League leader, according to Giuseppe Conte, has the "great political responsibility of having signed an agreement with the main Russian party, of having allowed it to be renewed despite Russian aggression, and of never repudiating it". The League claims the words with which, on the eve of this vote, Salvini "made things clear". Riccardo Molinari highlights two aspects of the pact made in 2017 with Vladimir Putin's party: "It took place in the partnership between states and was not legally binding: if there is no longer cooperation and interaction between the countries, the agreement also ceases" . This is fine for the allies: FdI, Lega and NM instead focus on the "misalignment" in the centre-left. The Democratic Party notes that on the eve "the League disavowed the agreement, but a formal act is missing and without that the relationship had no end", underlines Lia Quartapelle, maintaining that "Meloni was the first to raise problems on the relations between Russia and the League, so much so that there are no members of the League in the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and European Affairs".
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