Earthquake in the majority. The Chamber of Deputies has rejected by one vote the amendment of Brothers of Italy, Noi moderati and Udc to the electoral law, number 1.1077, which provided, along with the blocked top candidate, the possibility to mark up to three preferences from the same list. The rejection, by secret ballot, came with 188 against and 187 in favor. According to rumors from Montecitorio, there were more than thirty rogue voters. “We tried. The swamp won again – the comment on social media by Giorgia Meloni -. We tried to reintroduce preferences in the electoral law after more than 30 years of blocked lists. We asked for an open vote and for everyone to show their face on their vote, but the opposition wanted a secret ballot. The result says that the left and the opposition voted solidly against. But even in the majority several votes were missing, and this requires reflection. The amendment was rejected by just one vote. A missed opportunity for Italians, but it was right to try. P.S. The scene of the opposition celebrating as if they had won a World Cup for having prevented citizens from choosing their own parliamentarians says it all.”
“I do not dare to stick my nose in other people’s business – declared Galeazzo Bignami, FdI group leader in the Chamber -. If there was a conviction of reliability we would not have asked to proceed. Seeing some majority colleagues who chose to vote differently, some openly, others by secret ballot. Some we saw openly, get the list of who was there before, who was there after and who was in between. I do not name names. The majority was present in previous secret votes, remember that the majority cannot avoid the secret ballot. We literally saw some colleagues who ostentatiously did not vote”.
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The Lega group leader in the Chamber, Riccardo Molinari, confirmed the rumors about the number of rogue voters in the majority. “According to the counts we made, they are 31 – he said -. You always have to see if the eight Vannacciani deputies voted as they declared – he added -. Let’s say that based on the voting declarations, the number that fluctuates is 31“. And when asked if there are rogue voters in Lega, he replies: “As far as we know absolutely not, I have no reason to think there were any in Lega”. More balanced, however, was the comment of Antonio Tajani. According to the Foreign Minister, the vote in the Chamber “was a hiccup, it should not have happened, reflection is needed. It was not a fundamental issue, it was not a vote of confidence in the government. We move forward“.
Completely different context for the opposition. The leader of the broad field celebrated like never before. Everyone is asking for Giorgia Meloni’s resignation. “It was a vote against arrogance” of “a female leader who, to defend her power, was ready to crush that of other women,” commented the PD secretary Elly Schlein. “We are talking about a parliamentary democracy – said Giuseppe Conte -, yet there was a plebiscite against the justice reform and they pretended nothing happened and went ahead; then, on the only reform they bring, they split. It is an amendment wanted by Giorgia Meloni, she was voted down by her majority and now she should resign to the head of state and go home“.
Angelo Bonelli, instead, directly invites the premier to go to the Quirinale: “Today the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in a really unusual way, with a post on social media – as she usually does – asked for the confidence of Parliament. President Meloni, today you did not show your face. And think: Giorgia Meloni’s vote was missing. Parliament has voted no confidence in Giorgia Meloni. This is the greatest political defeat of the Prime Minister and she can only face the consequences. Today she intervened forcefully, trying to influence the constitutional prerogatives of Parliament, effectively asking for confidence via social media: something never seen before. And she was voted down. For this reason, we ask the Prime Minister to go quickly to the President of the Republic. Once again Giorgia Meloni has lost. Today, once again, she intervened forcefully and was the architect of her own defeat”.
“Today’s message is very clear – the thought of Nicola Fratoianni -, it is a vote of no confidence against Giorgia Meloni who had placed confidence on this passage, she did it via social media because that’s how she does now, she placed confidence and did not get it, in fact she got a resounding no confidence and the political message is very clear, go home, I believe Giorgia Meloni and her majority must take note because it is quite evident, the numbers say so, we had declared our vote, the majority had done the same, the missing votes are many, very many, all from the majority, this government does not have a majority today, they must face the consequences”.
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