Referendum, Giorgetti for the No: “Yes? In favor of the government.” A year ago the House voted for the cut: “The seats can be 500, 400, 300”

“Since the value that we have tried to affirm during this crisis is the consistency, there is no doubt that we will vote for the reduction of parliamentarians. But the problem is not so much reduction, the problem is Parliament ”and its current role. So spoke a year ago at Atreju, the annual event of the Brothers of Italy, the strongman of the League. Giancarlo Giorgetti. A few weeks later (on October 8), according to data from Open parliament, would have given the last go-ahead to court of the elect with his companions from the Carroccio and almost all of Montecitorio. But now that the referendum it’s about us Giorgetti has changed his mind. “I don’t know why they will vote, but I can tell you how I will vote. I will vote no, with conviction“He declared during an electoral meeting in the Milan area. “A simple cut in parliamentarians in the absence of other reforms is inconceivable“He explained to the audience of Vittuone, as reported ticinonotizie.it.

He then went on to list the reasons that, a year after that favorable vote in the House, led him to take No. ” majority system, since there is so much talk about EuropeIt has always worked very well ”, he clarifies, referring to the proportional electoral system in which the majority is working in parallel with the reduction of elected representatives. Two really separate nodes (the cut does not necessarily imply a majority abandonment), plus many of the main EU countries are equipped with a proportional system. Except France, this is the case in Spain and Germany, as well as in European Parliament.

Salvini’s right-hand man also adds that “reducing MPs by 40% would give unlimited power to party secretaries, limiting the popular will. It is a drift that must be strongly avoided ”. In this case too, it is the electoral law that makes the difference: it was the Porcellum conceived by the Northern League of Calderoli to eliminate preferences, then reintroduced by Constitutional court at the end of 2013. A year ago Giorgetti always, on the eve of the last reading in the House, downplayed the intrinsic importance of the number of parliamentarians. “There may be 600, 500, 400, 300,” he told Atreju, emphasizing instead the need to focus on others. reforms. “It definitely doesn’t make sense to keep bicameralism. The two Houses are necessary today because when one House makes a mistake, the other intervenes to correct the rules ”, he explained to the audience of Giorgia Meloni supporters. Concept repeated several times during its (long) career as a parliamentarian.

In the spring of 2013 Giorgetti was elected by the then head of state. Giorgio Napolitano as a member of the committee Ten wise men charged with working on an institutional reform program and then passing it with a bipartisan majority after the new government takes office. In the final document, one of the points referred to the number of seats in Parliament and it was planned, together with the overcoming of egalitarian bicameralism, to bring the deputies to 480 and the senators to 120. A few weeks later a delegation from the League joined met with the new ministers of the Letta government. Dario Franceschini me Gaetano Quagliariello. Massimo Bitonci, former Minister Calderoli and Giorgetti himself were part of it. Its objective was to find a mediation with the executive on the content of the reforms to base them in the classroom. Bitonci became a spokesperson for the group and explained to the press that Carroccio’s priorities were the birth of a “Federal Senate“, With together also a”net reduction the number of parliamentarians “.

You really don’t need to go that far back in time to find your professional statements. In August 2018, shortly after the birth of the first Conte government supported by Lega and Movimento 5 stelle, the then Undersecretary to the Prime Minister He suggested that the majority get involved in constitutional reforms. “Unfortunately” I’m not in government contract, She said. However, the direct election of the President of the Republic, the removal of parliamentarians and the elimination of a Chamber are necessary: ​​”Otherwise, Parliament will also be rejected.”

Merit issues aside, the last topic Giorgetti touched on during his speech in Vittuone concerns the political scenarios that could open up in the event of a negative vote in the referendum. Vote Yes, he explains, “it would be a favor for a troubled government, unable to manage the economic reaction to the Italian system in recent months and evident shame looking forward to the next few months, which will be very tough. the Conte government is inappropriate. And that is why I will also vote ‘no’ ”. A year ago, when the new brand executive Pd-M5s was born and Giorgetti was already in opposition, things went differently.