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This article was published on 21 January 2016 at 06:39.
lists ad hoc, ad hoc lists with preference, preferably direct, single-member districts … A film already seen, that the procedures for the election of future senators, but that immediately after final adoption of the bill by Parliament Woods (after yesterday’s vote is only the second yes, granted, the House in mid-April) is intended to re-emergence. With the minority of the Democratic Party which is already up in arms threatening consequences on the referendum in which Matteo Renzi, only yesterday, has linked his political fate. “In September we found here in the Senate an acceptable compromise, which provides for the direct selection of future senators by voters in conjunction with the regional elections, and this compromise is depended on our yes in Parliament to the constitutional reform,” recalled Senator Bersani Miguel Gotor. Warns that, on behalf of the Left Party: “The attitude that the government and the Democratic Party held on this point will affect our attitude during the campaign for the referendum to be held in the fall.”
But as , it was already all set? As you recall, through the amendments Finocchiaro presented in the Senate in late September found an original solution to get out of the impasse was over the Democratic Party: the minority who insisted on the direct election of future senators and Matteo Renzi not He wanted to learn to question the election of the second degree of a room devoid of trust with the government. True that 74 councilors and 21 mayors who will make up the new Senate of the Regions will be elected in the second degree by the Regional Councils, but the words finally inserted in the Constitution “in accordance with the choices expressed by the voters for the nominee to” enable citizens to directly choose the councilors that will also be the senators: a very strong political legitimacy, while remaining legally indirect election. But how will this “choice” will establish in detail the ordinary electoral law that will govern the election of the Senate of the Regions.
We are already in the implementation stage of the Bill Woods, then. And the first thing to point out, as does the Secretary for Reform Luciano Pizzetti, it is that no law could be approved before knowing the results of the referendum. Of course you can find first – adds Gotor – a political agreement. The minority of the Democratic Party yes is indeed carried out already by presenting a bill in the Senate (one of the signatories, in addition to Gotor, Maurizio Migliavacca and Vannino Chiti). Proposal for more appreciated “as a whole” by Pizzetti. “Among the different systems of expression of the popular will – it is written in relation to the draft bill -. Has identified the model of the uninominal with a single candidate linked to a regional grouping and allocation of seats on a proportional basis, with some points of similarity with the electoral law for the Senate in force from 1948 to 1993. “
Another issue that will be resolved with the election law is the presence of “law” of the governors in the new Senate. A presence which once Silvio Berlusconi refused mandatory, since most governors are currently left of center, but that many take for granted. Yet the presidents of the Region are willing to do even the Senators choice is entirely political. Because it is clear that the presence of Governors would give more political weight to a Senate that do not have a legislative function will have one more link between the national legislature and the regional legislature. The possibility of providing “more stringently” the presence in the Senate of Governors within the electoral law was a few days ago the same minister for Reforms Maria Elena Boschi. The consequence of the institution of the new Senate of the Regions will in any case the “overcoming” of the State-Regions “necessitated by the new role that is to exercise the Senate.” In short, the governors will have a place dedicated and politically stronger to assert their rights with respect to the Conference, and as such will be their interest to get elected senators.
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