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The Senate saves Azzollini, the Democratic Party is divided – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on July 30, 2015 at 6:37.

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With 189 votes against and 96 in favor of the arrest, the Senate yesterday saved the alfaniano Antonio Azzollini. A vote in which he was instrumental that call “to his conviction” written in the letter to Democratic senators from the parent company Luigi Zanda. And besides, the numbers speak for themselves: not a large part of the Democratic Party, which in the vote of the Council for permission had voted in favor of the arrest, Azzollini would already be under house arrest. And as expected the instant the front polemic with the minority of the Democratic Party: “Verdini on one side and the other Azzollini give a deadly blow to the credibility of the Democratic Party,” thunders the Bersani radical Alfredo D’Attorre. And on the same line line up many dem, including prodiana Sandra Zampa asking to convene immediately the party leadership, but Pier Luigi Bersani who currently prefer not to comment. And is Gianni Cuperlo to launch the challenge: “The Democratic Party was hurt – says former competitor Renzi in the primaries -. So it suggests that weighed political considerations that have nothing to do with merit. Now need a clarification in the group Pd in ​​the Senate and in the leadership of the party. “

But if to prevent ennessima battle of the Left Party, the same deputy secretaries renziani the Democratic Party split over Azzollini: Debora Serracchiani on behalf of the arrest, Lorenzo Guerini soon after in favor of the “rescue” Senator alfaniano. “Today the Senate would have voted according to the instructions of the Council for immunity, without preventing the arrest of Azzollini,” he said the president of the Friuli Venezia Giulia adding that “we should be a little ‘excuse, because I think we did a great figure; The policy has a duty to maintain the maximum transparency towards the citizens and justice. I fear that we have missed an opportunity to give a good signal of change. ” Quite another to read Guerini: “Even if some senators of the Democratic Party chose to vote against the arrest is obviously because they have not detected by the cards enough reasons to give consent. I repeat that these are choices that affect people go mainly analyzed the cards. “

In short, even if the leaders of the Democratic Party are divided renziani is not exactly the classic division between the majority and minority of the Democratic Party now almost over all fronts. “What we can say is that these judicial matters concerning the freedom of an elected even in the Democratic Party there are different sensitivities, and it was wise of the parent Zanda leave a substantial judgment of conscience,” leaked from Palazzo Chigi after a hectic day on several fronts (the output of verdiniani Forza Italy and the establishment of an independent group in the Senate to support the reforms which the minority of the Democratic Party rather critical, and especially the case Fiumicino with yet another blow to the image of the capital and the country as we write on page 9): in any case – it emphasizes – the story Azzollini was and is a purely parliamentary affair.

In short Renzi takes out of each other. The charge that you want to reject, advanced by M5S but also by the minority of the Democratic Party, that is has been given indication to save Azzollini to compact majority in the Senate, where the numbers are risicatissimi, avoiding making a snub to centrist allies. An unfounded accusation – replicate renziani – especially when you consider that the vote on the freedom of people is difficult to control by political parties especially when it’s secret: you remember about it the vote of 20 July 2011, when the Senate saved the senator Pd Alberto German despite the party had given indication to vote in favor. Zanda, for its part, defended the policy of the group: “The senators of the Democratic Party have expressed their vote after assessing with proceedings on the merits and without prejudice. No wonder that in such a delicate and complex one vote there have been different opinions, “says the leader of dem. Adding just a little note controversy: “The secret ballot has become a political weapon sparingly used instrumentally.” So the secret of the urn is the perfect place for political maneuvers, as suggested by the same Guerini: “The secret ballot, that we have requested, gave the result that we know with some transversal …”.

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