Renzi resigns: “All the political parties to form a government, or to vote”. In the Senate, passes the trust – The Republic

the ROME – With the request of the government to vote confidence in the Senate on the Budget, begins the longest day in the palaces of the policy. Around 14,30 the government gets 173 yes (108 no). The Budget is the law, Renzi may resign. Announces himself on social: to 19 the ascent to the Quirinal. “Thank you all, long live Italy”, he writes. The joint to the Palazzo Madama is only the beginning of the twenty-four hours will be decisive for understand which road will take the open hole after the victory of the No to the Constitutional referendum. “I am not to decide – says in the enews – but it must be that the parties, all the part ies to take their responsibilities. The point is not what he wants, the outgoing president, but what do you propose the Parliament”.

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“it Will be down to parliamentary groups decide what to do. Want to go straight to the election? In the case you will have to wait for the Judgment of the council of Tuesday, January 24, and then vote with the current electoral laws, as modified by the Court,” writes the premier. “If groups want to go forward with this legislature, should indicate its willingness to support a new Government that will tackle the electoral law, but, above all, a 2017 very important at the international level”.

After the vote in the Senate, the spotlight is moving on the seat of the Pd to the largo of the Nazarene where, at 18,20, almost an hour after the expected, meets at the direction of the Pd. “We are the party of relative majority, and we must give a hand to the president of the Republic to find a solution,” says Renzi by opening the meeting. Is presented by the secretary, not by the premier, without a tie. And without the tones moved from speech on the night of the referendum, but, rather, joking bitterly about the festivities, “not elegant” that someone told them, has made the defeat of the Yes. D’alema, the direction is not there. Did he know before that he would not have participated to previous commitments to Brussels.

, Then proposes a delegation “at the Quirinale palace, composed by one of the two assistant-secretaries, Guerini, president Matteo Orfini, “and by the two leaders of the” Ettore Rosato and Luigi Zanda. He suggests, will be a part of. “I propose that the direction should be convened permanently to allow the delegation to come to report when there will be new elements,” he adds, “because there are no choices scodellate, you decide together,” continues the premier, who then recalls the objectives reached in the thousand days of government: “Less taxes, more rights”, summarizing.

Renzi, first of all, does not want to leave “the flag of the elections to the Cricket”, he had told the premier the day after the referendum. And in fact Cricket in his blog already today, he insisted: “The next move for certain, according to me it will be demonizzarci,” and adds, “the M5s has just deposited to Parliament a bill that extends the principles of the electoral system in force for the Chamber even in the Senate,” and you can vote “soon” because in this way, “the day after the consultation you will be given, and we’ll have an election law to both houses of Parliament”. Clear the request of the League that is a threat to the protest: “Vote now or we will go in the square” marks Matteo Salvini.On the hypothesis of an early election falls, but the frost of the former president: “a Vote now is technically incomprehensible.”

After the direction of the Pd Renzi rooms at the Quirinale, the formal resignation after Monday had been frozen pending the approval of the maneuver. Is the last hurdle before we can start the consultations of the head of State to manage the crisis. Italicum, the date of the Consult. be Targeted by multiple parties for a long time in his examination of the new electoral law, a crucial step for the solution of the political crisis in the act, the judges of the constitutional Court have issued a note: “The choice of an earlier date than that fixed on 24 January to discuss issues related to electoral law would have deprived the parties of the terms of which have by law, in order to form the judgment and to submit memories”. And it also emphasizes how the Council operates accor ding to the rules of the courts”.

the Palazzo Madama trust and manoeuvre. Shortly after, at 14, passes the trust. Early in the morning was the minister for relations with Parliament and Reforms, Maria Elena Woods, to announce to the plenary the request of the trust on article 1 of the maneuver, which was received with a murmur, and the regret of the chairman of the Budget committee, the pd Giorgio Tonini, expressed in the name of all the groups and also the government, “for not having been able to make a reading done of the law”, to which they were submitted about a thousand amendments. Destined, however, to decline as the trust is asked to approve the move without modifications, in the text already dismissed from the Room. Among the declarations of vote in favour, together with the groups of the majority is expressed for the yes even the Ala-Sc. After the confidence vote, the Senate has given the go-ahead also to the Manoeuvre itself, the ddl for budget 2017. In favor of the me asure, which becomes law, and are expressed 166 senators, 70 against and one abstained.