Reforms: to save Renzi thinks to postpone the referendum and unpack – Florence Post

The rottamatore begins to give in on some issues in order to keep the chair after the forthcoming constitutional referendum, initially announced for September, it seems to have to slip late autumn to allow the majority to close ranks and hone a strategy winning. Meanwhile, the latest polls give the No to 52% and is 48%; There is therefore the opportunity and time to recover.

The idea of ​​the “unpacking” of the constitutional referendum was put forward first by Riccardo Magi, secretary of the Italian Radicals. But this is not an easy and short route, and this can serve the interests of Renzi and the government. In order to verify the possibility to consult the voters more questions, so maybe some parts of the reform to be approved and sideration other, it is necessary that the Supreme Court invests the Constitutional Court shall check the feasibility. The opinions of experts disagree and not inclined to divide the question, but the proposal continues to make his way, however, and has the merit of focusing the debate on the merits that the fate of the government.

To get to See require that at least 120 MPs to sign the request to be submitted in the Supreme Court which then invest the Constitutional Court, but the Radicals are not represented in the Chamber of deputies and should act so through a third party. The proposal was endorsed also by Choice Civica, relaunched by Undersecretary for Foreign Benedetto Della Vedova, but the numbers of the party that was Mario Monti are not enough. It must be the contribution of the Democratic Party and the majority forces, as it seems unlikely to get on the subject, the contribution of the M5S or Forza Italy.

During the recent meeting at the Quirinale, Matteo Renzi and Sergio Mattarella would also discussed the date of the referendum that depends a lot on when the Supreme Court will give the green light to the government to fix, in a space that is 50 to 70 days, the consultation. However, if the Court were to be invested by the request unpack reform more questions, the times would stretch. The risk is that the date falls in late October, Sunday 30, very close to the bridge of the saints in November.

The “advantage” for the government would be the possibility to launch the law of stability before the consultation . Put to shelter the public accounts would allow the country to face the uncertain outcome of the referendum with greater confidence and less risk. Slippage would also result in an additional advantage for Renzi: if you will vote late October to November, at which point the Constitutional Court (convened on October 4) should have decided on the constitutionality dell’Italicum. A possible rejection by the Court (there are murmurs of list headers and majority bonus, with already “condemned forecasts’ by the Consulta), it would allow the government to reopen the games on the electoral law with the minority Democratic Party and the centrist formations. But the last one singular ruling on pensions issued by the Advisory blurs all odds, because it seems that the Court is slipping away to a drift of flattening on the positions of the government.