Closed, at least for now, the issue on preferences, a new case opens on the electoral law, this time on signatures. To balance the removal of any vote threshold to contribute to the prize, the center-right, in an anti-satellite list key, quadruples the subscriptions to be collected for those not in Parliament (from 1,500 to 6,000 per constituency). A monstrous collection that – all things considered – forces new formations, only for the Chamber of Deputies to present themselves in all 49 constituencies (the rule requires running in at least half), to have to present about 300,000 signatures.
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Against satellite lists
The Senate approves the measure, contained in an amendment reformulated by the FdI government, after a sharp clash between majority and opposition. The initial hypothesis, then revised in the morning by the majority, provided for an even higher figure proposing to go from 1,500 to 9,000 per constituency. The opposition protests, calling it a measure “from a South American regime, unacceptable and discriminatory.” The center-right defends it with FI recalling “the shameful cases of lists like Forza Lazio or Forza Roma” and explaining that the goal is to hit nuisance lists while outside the Palace, from Onorato to the Prc, all the likely involved are on the warpath.
Hypothesis of early vote
The clash in the Chamber on the point before the vote is muscular: the opposition tries to request a suspension and verification of the quorum several times. Presiding over the work is the president Ignazio La Russa who tries to maintain order and illustrating the measure (which until the last moment is not deposited), also recalls how the law provides for halving the subscriptions in case of early elections. More than one in the opposition disputes his statement forcing him to clarify that he was simply citing the law in force. A few hours later, however, the president of the Senate – who also denies any kind of clash with Giorgia Meloni on the management of the reform examination – returns to evoke early elections. “Voting in September – he observes – is unusual. If you don’t want to vote in September, I do not exclude that you can vote a few months or days earlier.” A theme that returns, net of the League’s no, in the reasoning of several majority members. And one of the readings that the opposition gives is that it accelerates to avoid the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the electoral law.
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The opposition attacks
According to the Dem Dario Franceschini – for example – the premier “is tempted to accelerate the vote so as not to give the Constitutional Court time to declare inadmissible several parts of the electoral law that are manifestly unconstitutional.” Including the one on signatures against which, Elly Schlein, promises “we will make a wall.” While Giuseppe Conte appeals to the Quirinale. “I ask the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to block this rule which is a shame,” he says. And on the day of the death of the radical leader Emma Bonino, he notes how, with rules like these, she would not have been able to enter Parliament.
The strategies
Conte, among other things, says he is ready to help the ‘small’ in collecting signatures. And, according to some, he could also consider supporting some small formations like that of Alessandro Onorato perhaps creating a component of the Mixed group since in this case the necessary subscriptions would remain the current ones. After all, it is a really prohibitive quota. “In the last elections – notes the Dem senator Dario Parrini – the valid national votes were 28 million. So, if you calculate the 300,000 signatures needed for the Chamber of Deputies, you are asking a party not present in Parliament to collect a number equal to 1% of the total votes cast by Italian citizens in the last elections.” All with perhaps an even heavier impact in the smaller Regions.
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