“A reflection is needed,” warns threateningly Giorgia Meloni addressing her majority. A few minutes earlier, the center-right suffered a heavy setback on the new electoral law: in the Chamber, the amendment by Fratelli d’Italia to reintroduce preferences was rejected by one vote. Decisive were the “snipers” among the allies, numbers in hand 31.
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“A huge number, so this implies that it is not a political matter, as evidenced by the fact that in some previous votes nothing happened,” explains Alessandro Sallusti, director of Libero, guest on 4 di Sera on Rete 4. “The swamp has won,” the premier commented immediately, and in the Transatlantico on Tuesday evening a suspicion that became a certainty this morning is circulating: those who turned their backs on the Prime Minister were women of Lega and Forza Italia, as well as the Vannacciani.
“This amendment – confirms Sallusti – was seen by them as negatively affecting the electability of women, so this is a vote of no confidence by the women of the center-right, I say it somewhat simplistically and perhaps approximately.” Faced with this “such a high number, given that all the coalition parties had declared themselves in favor of this amendment,” Sallusti summarizes, “it may be that within each group there are one or two.”
On the table, concludes the director, is the problem of gender alternation. And while Schlein and Conte are already calling for a government crisis and a return to the polls, Meloni is already contemplating a comeback. For now, there is only one certainty: the FdI leader has no intention of just getting by and waiting for the “natural” end of the legislature without fighting.
Electoral law: government defeated by one vote on preferences
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