“This time it is not the people who challenge the king and start the revolution, as in France on July 14, 1789, with the storming of the Bastille. This time it is Parliament reminding Giorgia Meloni that she is not yet a queen, and that institutional overreach is destined to regularly crash against a wall called democracy”: so begins the editorial by Annalisa Cuzzocrea, who on Repubblica comments on what happened yesterday with the electoral law at Montecitorio, where the majority was defeated in the vote on the amendment regarding preferences. According to the journalist, other episodes also reminded the prime minister that “she is not yet a queen”: “It happened with the law on Differentiated Autonomy, thanks to the Constitutional Court. It happened with the justice reform, with the referendum.” Taking advantage of the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, therefore, Cuzzocrea ventures into rather bold parallels.
According to her, moreover, “the amendment was needed by the president of the Council to be able to say that she wanted to change the electoral law with the aim of giving the word back to the voters and not to the party secretariats. But it was not true, and it did not work.” And not only that. For Cuzzocrea, what happened in the chamber would have dramatic consequences, already denied by several government members: “The center-right leaders no longer control the parliamentary groups. They have bent them with continuous votes of confidence, with decree-laws that had no necessity or urgency, with an electoral law that comes in blows of unamendable amendments written at Palazzo Chigi to tailor a new victory for the prime minister — especially for her — or to avert a resounding defeat.”
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The editorialist even goes so far as to say that there is a very precise underlying strategy, “not the attempt to give the word back to the voters, but to write an electoral law that cancels the part on single-member districts — probably the best way to guarantee representation — just because this would mean, for the right, losing the South. And adding new tricks like the one on residents abroad, changing the distribution up to the world constituency for the Senate. Overreach after overreach, Meloni was trying to build a safe conduct that would help her, Salvini, and Tajani to resist despite the inability to agree on fundamental issues — the relationship with Europe, the war in Ukraine — and despite the external assault by Roberto Vannacci, whose brave men yesterday shouted in the chamber things like: ‘Enough with the fake right, we need the general’.”
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