“We hope that the debate in Parliament and in various institutional settings is largely democratic, everyone can express themselves that their objections can be considered and that freedom of conscience on issues fundamental to the life of society and of the people is not only respected, but also promoted with a secret ballot. ” This was said by Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, archbishop of Genoa and president of CEI, on the sidelines of the Mass for the day of the Sick commenting on the passage of the bill Cirinnà.
“The exhortations are right and acceptable, but as adjust the debate the Senate decides the president of the Senate. Not the president of the CEI, “replies the Secretary for Relations with Parliament Luciano Pizzetti (Pd).
” It’s so obvious that there is a piece that the Senate does not want the bill on civil unions and is doing everything I can because is not approved. The Democratic Party, however, wants the law. ” So the president of the Senate of the Democratic Party Luigi Zanda filibuster replication raised in Parliament by opposition groups. “After 9 months of filibustering in committee – we continue Zanda – we have a duty to regulate the debate. The text comes in plenary without speaker, no, quite rightly, the opinion of the government, how do we give order to work if they raised issues that do not have anything to do with the merits of the law? We had a very long general debate, were not put terms for the final vote and the agreement was worth because nobody foresaw obstructionist tactics. Instead you’re just talking about quirks and this is not the climate in which we are all committed to each other there, apparently some were more honest than the others. “
The bill then it sits down: Decision of the Senate to postpone the start of voting of amendments depends on the Democratic party from the need to continue the negotiations with the Northern League to make them withdraw most of the 5,000 amendments, after the failure of the attempted today. But they also study countermoves, in a real ballet of procedures, where the Northern League does not give way to the demands Dem.
The agreement, in principle, which they pointed was the withdrawal from the League of 90% of its 5000 amendments, in the face of the Democratic Party waives an amendment by Andrea Marcucci, called super-kangaroo for if approved, would invalidate most other proposed amendments to the bill Cirinnà. The text Marcucci Article 1 is a so-called premissivo amendment, namely that sets out the themes of subsequent articles, thus making void the amendments that aim to change these items. A parliamentary trick already used on January 25, 2015 for the Italicum.
However, the “Marcucci” is a double-edged sword: the Democratic Party also precludes the amendments aimed at improving the bill and, above all, preclude an amendment of cattoDem (first signatory Stefano Lepri) which replaces the stepchild adoption and foster care strengthened, amendment of which the parent company has committed to Luigi Zanda to vote with freedom of conscience. In front of the Kangaroo Marcucci, which would in turn voted in secret ballot, how they would behave the cattoDem who have been deprived of the opportunity to vote for their amendment? The risk of rejection would be real. Hence the reservation on the super-kangaroo.
The League has sensed the hesitation of Dem and why in the negotiations showed the muscles: indicated a willingness to withdraw 90% of their proposals, but at least 80 of those that remain are in turn premissive: that each of them refers the stepchild adoption (referred to in Article 5) and would require a secret ballot. And on that the Democratic Party does not fit, wanting to limit this type of vote. A hypothesis in which you work is a reformulation of the text Marcucci. A rewrite would not exclude amendments that everything the Democratic Party has pledged to vote, including those of CattoDem. However it can be requested only by the government, as the bill arrived in plenary without speaker.
But in meetings with the Bureau of the Democratic Party Minister Orlando explained that the government does not intend to do this request because it would mean transforming the rewording in amendment of the government, while the House wants to put every decision, as explained by the Minister of Justice in Parliament. Not to mention the risks of rejection. Of course, the Regulation grants the 8 senators opportunity to present a new amendment on the same day of the session, but then it could be sub-amended by the other senators (always eight in number), with the additional risk of the amendments increase. So the path of political negotiation with the Northern League remains the simplest and the one that will be followed in the coming days by Zanda and Alessandro Maran, on the one hand, and the Northern League’s Roberto Calderoli and Giammarco Hundred, on the other.
Thursday, 11 February 2016 10:38 – Last Updated: 19:16
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
No comments:
Post a Comment