gay adoptions, Grillo Renzi pulls straight and does another reverse – the Journal

Roma While the Democratic Party, under the direction of Renzi, goes straight on his way ignoring the ultimatum (a bit ‘exhausts) Angelino Alfano against civil unions, Beppe Grillo is a new somersault. Probably taken by surprise by the dissent in parliamentary groups and by the revolt of the base, the former comedian and his director Casaleggio change again broken and try to recover the mess of the previous days: “freedom of conscience” is just about the adoption of children the partner state. The law goes Cirinnà instead voted no ifs, ands or buts. Probably at home Five Star they realized that their clever move on Saturday, in addition to split them, risked giving the perfect scapegoat to the Democratic Party in the event of an accident. So yesterday Grillo was sent to state that “in a totally extraordinary Grillo and Casaleggio, acting as guarantors of the Movement, we have taken the responsibility to give up a further vote on the blog and to leave to the spokesman the freedom to decide on the stepchild adoption according to their conscience. “

But on the bill Cirinnà you vote in favore.Il Pd while preparing for battle in the classroom, which will begin tomorrow afternoon in the Senate, after a Tuesday dedicated still to the general debate and the diction of the senators exercises, struggling with the pronunciation of impervious stepchild adoption. Yesterday morning Matteo Renzi brought together as every Monday at Palazzo Chigi the general staff democrat (there were the leaders, the minister Boschi, the deputy secretaries) to take stock of the parliamentary week. He allowed no space for doubt: the repeated request of Alfano and Ncd to drop adoptions (yesterday returned to the office the minister Beatrice Lorenzin, proposing that the issue be discussed in a separate bill) is not even taken into account “You go ahead as planned, we have no reason to think again,” he cut short the premier. Even so, says a Democratic Party leader, “Alfano is not even able to ensure that, where stralciassimo the stepchild adoption, the law would have the votes of Ncd: fundamentalists type Sacconi would vote against it anyway.” As for the Five Star, “were unreliable before and still unreliable now,” notes the leader of the House Ettore Rosato.

So the Democratic Party must tighten the most of their files, and test your luck in the classroom. The internal Catholic dissent, in fact, is much more limited than it seemed: 30 against the Senators, only a fraction remains of an extremist line. But also counting them all against, adoptions may have a majority around 180, adding to the vote Pd those of most grillini, the Mixed, the verdiniani and Autonomie.L’incognita group remains the secret ballot, and the Democratic Party aims to limit it as much as possible: “Since each group will leave freedom of conscience, each senator may vote as they wish, and the transparency of choices would agree at all,” says Beppe Lumia. The fear is that in the dark urn instead to discharge the discontent of those who (among grillini but also in the minority Democratic Party) is eager to land a kick in the shins to Renzi. The last word is up to President Grasso, who will decide which and how many changes will be voted in secret. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party holds reserves of the “kangaroo” ultimate weapon to use if the league does not keep its commitment to withdraw its avalanche of amendments.