Covid, no quorum in the House: vote postponed

“There is nothing to celebrate”, Rosato’s words that were thus taken up by the opposition that in the courtroom ‘celebrated’ the lack of a quorum in the first vote on the resolutions on communications of the Minister of Health.

“I ask to verify if the number of people absent from the majority groups that are on the list, but who, at the request of the Chambers’ offices, did not participate in the vote, contributed to invalidating the quorum,” said the Democratic Party deputy, Emanuele Fiano. “When there is no quorum,” she observed, “the problem is always a majority but we, as we already pointed out during the last group leader, cannot continue as if it had nothing to do with the progress of the work of the Chamber. . In addition to the list that is already in the hands of the presidency with the exact number of people who, at the request of the quaestors, had to stay at home, there are colleagues who are working in the committees who could not go to the.

“Several majority deputies are absent due to Covid, the opposition lacks a quorum for not playing fair, “he stressed Stefano Ceccanti from Pd. “The blindness to the request to have the vote prevented from a distance harms the parliamentary institution, not only the majority. Meanwhile, the signatures on the remote Parliament’s proposal have reached 91 ”.

“Majority in disorder, quarrelsome and absent, even when it comes to viruses,” commented the leader of the League. Matteo salvini .

“If there is a health emergency, why are the majority not in the courtroom? Maybe they don’t even believe it? They can’t even guarantee a quorum. Most want to extend the state of emergency without explaining the reasons and without the Conte’s presence in What a shame, there is no respect for Parliament and for citizens: nothing good will come out of a government with an authoritarian vocation in disarray ”, said the Leader of the League in the Chamber, Riccardo Molinari.

But do you really think that dialogue with the opposition should only serve to guarantee a quorum, or do you want a real relationship and restore a method of comparison? If there are positive colleagues in Covid, they will also be there in an hour. We call for Prime Minister Conte to come to this House. We we want to discuss with the Prime Minister the extension of the state of emergency, ours is a request of common sense ”, words of Mariastella Gelmini, leader of Forza Italia in the Chamber of Deputies, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies after the lack of a quorum in the vote of the majority resolution on the first occasion . “ We are not deniers with regard to Covid – added Gelmini -, we know that we are in a difficult season, we know that all the necessary precautions are needed to face the pandemic, but we cannot think of using the Dpcm and eluding Parliament, asking the at the same time the help and cooperation of the opposition just to guarantee a quorum. If we want to reestablish a method, the absence of a quorum gives a great opportunity, especially to the majority and to Conte: to come to the Chamber, to give us all the necessary information to convince ourselves of the extension of the state of exception, ” he concluded.