“The impression is that the left is somewhat allergic to popular sovereignty. I understand that you want to interpret the Constitution as you wish. Perhaps in your interpretation of the Constitution sovereignty does not belong to the people, but belongs to the house of the people. But isn’t it an expression of popular sovereignty if citizens can know who the prime minister candidate of the coalitions is? Isn’t it an expression of popular sovereignty if citizens can finally put aside botched governments, governments that have generated instability, and prime ministers that no one had ever heard of?”: said Marco Lisei in the Senate chamber, during the debate on the prejudicial motions to the electoral reform.
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The FdI senator then went into the heart of the controversy referring to the “words spoken by the left when Giuseppe Conte was chosen as prime minister, the premier ‘Pinco Pallo’, called ‘Pinco Pallo’ by Dagospia, by those who sit next to you, dear colleagues of the Five Star Movement.” And again: “For the first time in the history of the Republic, a prime minister was chosen whom no one knew. No one knew who Giuseppe Conte was. Perhaps the Alpa law firm knew.”
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At that point chaos broke out in the chamber. And faced with repeated protests from the M5S benches, the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa replied with a “let him speak,” noting that “I’ve heard worse.” Then, when Lisei finished his speech, La Russa reminded the senators that “you must allow those who think differently from you to express their opinions. And I have heard them from both sides.” “I assure you that if we make an exercise of listening when a colleague from our group speaks and compare it with others, you will see that the treatment is identical,” thus the President of the Senate closed the lively phase of the debate.
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