The broad field splits in the chamber over military spending. With 181 votes in favor, 126 against, and 12 abstentions, the Chamber approved the resolution presented by the center-right on the communications of the Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti. It is a document that commits the government “to take appropriate initiatives to start the procedure regarding the request for the national safeguard clause concerning expenses aimed at strengthening the resilience of the energy system. And the security of the related supply, within the overall limits of 0.6 percent of GDP in the reference period, in defense matters, also related to investments, within the limits of 0.9 percent of GDP in the reference period.”
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For the financing of the measures, the government is called “to consider resorting to different financing conditions. Including, if deemed overall advantageous, those of the Safe program (instrument of action for Europe’s security, editor’s note). In any case, primarily prioritizing the use of funds for defensive technological systems and national security.”
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Due to the vote on the resolution presented by the majority, the document presented by Pd-M5S and Avs was not put to the vote. Therefore, the rules of Montecitorio saved the Democratic Party from embarrassment. In this way, in fact, the split within the Nazareno was avoided from appearing on the voting board. The statements of the representatives of the various Democratic currents had been clear on this. “The resolution is not to be voted on. Even if it had been voted on, I would not have supported it. The text remains unacceptable,” said Lorenzo Guerini. Since the eve of the vote, when the text of the resolution was released, the reformist minority of the PD immediately opposed it, asking for it to be rewritten.
The PD foreign affairs head, Peppe Provenzano, tried instead to patch things up: “We presented a resolution on the deviation that we built with other opposition forces. And that contains positions already expressed several times. And formulations that we have already voted on in recent unified motions with all the opposition forces of our alliance.” So, the no to 5% of GDP for NATO, the no “to the arms race of individual states while supporting the need to build a true European defense.” Contents not shared by the reformist area of Elly Schlein’s party.
In the chamber, the leader of the Movement Giuseppe Conte, bypassing the Democratic secretary, said: “The progressive project means a real alternative to the rearmament policy you are pursuing. The Five Star Movement today, together with the other forces on this side of this hemicycle, firmly says no to rearmament. It is a no that expresses a completely alternative vision.” When reporters asked him if it was a victory, he replied: “No, this is about politics. It is not a competition.” Also satisfied was Nicola Fratoianni, leader of Italian Left: “We contributed as protagonists to writing the unified parliamentary resolution” that “we strongly wanted.”
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