Referendum on November 20, but the Democratic Party today is already shattered – the Journal

Rome The timer is started. Monday, according to the advances, the Supreme Court should give the green light to the referendum on constitutional reform, stating that the signatures collected from the front of Yes (and failed than the No) there are and are valid. Then the ball will go to the government, which must decide when to convene the consultation.

Difficult choice, because the outcome of the consultation depend on the fate of the government Renzi, and the political balance of the country. For this in many, starting with the President Mattarella, have suggested to the prime minister to slow down the run, and secure the fateful date after putting in safety the law of stability, at least in one branch of Parliament. The most popular dates are on Sundays between 13 and 27 November, with the greatest chance for the 20. It will be a Council of Ministers, probably in early September, to set the deadline.

The minority of pd part in the fourth, giving the ultimatum to Matteo Renzi: or change the electoral law as much as we do, or we vote no. Is Robert Hope (which Parliament has voted yes to reform Woods, who now wants to reject) to threaten the pillars of the Republic: “Just winks or smoke signals. I ask parliamentary political initiative. ” If the Italicum should remain until the date of the referendum, “I would not be able to vote yes.” Immediately they come to be his shoulder senators Pegorer and Fornaro, who after swearing that “the minority Democratic Party does not act as a party in the party,” reaffirm that – without abolishing dell’Italicum – “that we could not draw conclusions from the referendum” .

the tear was announced some time: after the outcome of the administrative, the Democratic minority – ringalluzzita from the daze half of the Democratic Party – has smelled the opportunity to get to the final showdown with Renzi, and get rid of it before a Congress that hardly would win, and especially before him to make the next electoral lists, and to decide of their applications. The issue of electoral law is an excuse to justify the turnaround against the reform from them rated themselves, and go to the front of the No. Renzi had hoped to avoid the split of the party, doing vaguest sull’Italicum openings, and had received assurances About bersaniano from the front. But the attempt to lull, harshly opposed dalemiana from the wing, has failed.

And so, while the front of No is organized and Five Star have announced a tour agostano against the reform (including a “major initiative at high altitude in the Dolomites “the gleeful Alessandro Di Battista), the party of Prime Minister appears split and in full civil war. The reaction of renziani insurrection of the minority is alarmed: “Vote No is a political suicide, for the sole purpose of to spite Renzi”, says the leader Ettore Rosato. “The minority dem thinks only an eternal party congress,” the complaint Senator Andrea Marcucci. The premier, knowing that Italicum and reform are only a pretext ( “Their only purpose is to blow me and the government,” he says), is not going to join in the games. “I see no urgent need to change the Italicum. We present adequate proposals, and with sufficient numbers in parliament, and will do our part, “he scoffs Assistant Secretary Lorenzo Guerini.