PALACE MISTRESS
Milan , August 4, 2014 – 15:54
Ready, set, go. After a week tense, very tense, in which the work for the approval of the bill on the reform of the Senate seemed to have been hopelessly bogged down Monday came soaring from the Chamber, also in view of the important deadline of August 8, where the Government is very keen. And so in two hours senators have approved seven of the 40 items of the text that bears the signature of the Woods-Finocchiaro-Calderoni (Monday absent in the courtroom for his mother’s death), and that reduces the functions of the Senate to concentrate almost all the legislative power in the hands of the Chamber of Deputies, a cornerstone project of the reformist prime minister, Matteo Renzi. It also loosens the knot immunity, which so plagued the government in recent weeks: a vote Monday to unexpected dinner time (it was thought that everything would be postponed to Tuesday), the House rejected an amendment calling for the League of the abolition of the allowance for new 100 senators.
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The new senators will therefore enjoy parliamentary immunity and, therefore, not will have a different treatment compared to their fellow lawmakers. With the vote of the Senate, which rejected the additional amendments to Article 8 of the Bill, which sought to amend Article 68 of the Constitution (the immunity), the text of the reforms remains that fired by the Board provides that senators enjoy the same Guarantees of Deputies. At the end of the day, the Prime Minister Renzi said he was very pleased with how the Senate proceed to vote on the reforms, in particular the fact that today it was decided that future senators will have no benefit and duration of senators appointed by the president. “It really changes,” says the prime minister doing his tweet of the Head of Communications Pd Francis Nicodemus.
The Aventine of 5 Stars
The seat is began with the protest (announced) Five Stars: “This crap does not deserve to reform our participation in the Chamber,” debuted Vito Petrocelli, the leader of the Senate grillini, confirming that even today the group pentastellato would not have participated in the work of ‘classroom Not even the League participated in the work. He communicated a note of the Northern League in the Senate. At the end of the meeting between the Minister Maria Elena Woods, the leader of the Northern League Senators, Gian Marco Hundred, pointed out that “when the government’s response is unsatisfactory.”
Classroom sprint
The discussion is then broken down in Article 3, which deals with the appointment of senators life: the classroom has approved in less than half an hour, with 184 yes, 12 no and 11 abstained. This text amending the second paragraph of Art. 59 of the Constitution: “The President of the Republic may appoint five senators citizens who have honored the Nation for outstanding achievements in the social, scientific, artistic and literary. These senators remain in office for seven years and may be reappointed. “Contrary to Article
Senator Elena Cattaneo:” Ask these gentlemen participating in Italian design excellence in the way we sit here and do not work too is humiliating. It reveals once again for me as a good part of the policy actually want to do without many skills to decide for themselves, “he said in the House The Senate also approved Article 4, relating to the duration of the Chamber of Deputies, with which to delete the word Senate Article 60 of the Constitution on the House prorogabilità not, except by law or in the event of war. Also, Article 5 has gone smoothly: concerned the binding mandate: the regulation will be to determine in which cases the appointments to the Senate of the future may be limited by reason of the exercise of the functions of government regional or local.
Green light for the binding mandate
Green light also Article 6 relating to the prerogatives of parliament and Articles 7 and 8. latter amending Article 67 of the Constitution provides that ‘Members of Parliament shall perform their duties without a binding mandate.” Were at the time set aside additional votes on amendments relating to immunity, now governed by Article 68. Yeah also Article 9 of the Bill reforms that abolishes the compensation for the members of the Senate. The rule alters the current Article 69 of the Constitution which states that ‘the members of Parliament shall receive an allowance established by law “, and now provides that” the members of the Chamber of Deputies receive an allowance established by law. ”
The debate on immunity
The debate on additional amendments, including the award is no immunity, began on Monday evening after the vote on Article. 9. The Constitutional Affairs Committee had decided to retain Article 68 of the Constitution unchanged, unlike the initial text of the government, thus maintaining immunity, both for members and for the senators. On the proposed amendments tabled in Parliament, the rapporteur, Anna Finocchiaro (Pd) and the Government had put back to the House. Classroom that has rejected all the amendments. Disappointed Senator De Petris, in the Constitutional Affairs Commission in ‘quota’ group Sel-Mixed: “With today’s vote, the majority ruled that the perfect bicameralism ends in anything but immunity. There are availed to nothing – says De Petris – considerations dictated by pure reason that pointed to the absurdity of immunity granted to an unelected Senate and incomprehensible differences in treatment that are thus created between the councilors and mayors who will of the future Senate and those that do not make you part instead. The government has decided to go on as if nothing had happened and the majority is sufficient. ” More criticism of Giorgia Meloni Brothers of Italy: “Colleagues who have voted, be ashamed.”
The jungle amendments
Until Monday the Chamber of the Senate, in a climate overheated, had given rise to “only” two of the 40 articles that make up the overall measure which bears the signature of the Minister Mary Helen Woods. But these two articles ‘heavy’, both in terms of content and number of amendments. Suffice it to say that requests for amendment of the text had been collected in three “folders” more or less the same size: the first two were in fact only for items 1 and 2, while the third covered all the remaining items.
remains the kangaroo
In this third binder lists more than 2,700 amendments, however, on which hangs the application of the ‘kangaroo’, the tool that allows you to delete all the amendments similar to one already rated and allowed to proceed quickly to the collapse of all in all about 2,200 amendments on Article. 1 and more than 2,300 on Article. 2. Nearly one-third of the more than 2,700 remaining amendments are focused on Article 10 (amending Article. 70 of the Constitution on the legislative process) and Article 16 (on the emergency decree). On Article. 10 amendments are almost 520, while on Article. 16 are about 350.
August 4, 2014 | 15:54
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