Contested seat in the Senate, La Giunta says yes to Lotito. Now the court decides. Most risk losing another senator

Claudio Lotito is one step away from becoming Senator of the republic. The Board of Elections and Parliamentary Immunities of Palazzo Madama hosted the appeal presented by the president of the Lazio after your no choice in 2018 policies. Candidate on one of the multi-member lists in Campania at high altitude Go Italy, Lotito alleges that a calculation error was made in the allocation of seats and claims the right to occupy what is now assigned to the senator Vincenzo Carbone, again chosen with Forza Italia but recently moved to Italia Viva. The last word is now up to the House: if the council’s opinion is confirmed, the center-right could count on one more parliamentarian. It is not a small thing, since the last supplementary The coalition formed by Forza Italia, Lega and Fdi has already managed to snatch a seat from the 5-star Movement and reconfirm another in Veneto.

The match of abacus is decisive, since the majority supporting the Conte government he never had very wide support in Palazzo Madama. Figures in hand, it seems that the Executive can count (at least on paper) with the support of 18 senators from Italy Long Live, 95 of 5 star movement, 35 of the Pd, 6 of the Autonomies and 14 belonging to the Mixed group. Of these, 5 refer to Free and equal (Loredana De Petris, Vasco Errani, Pietro Grasso, Francesco Laforgia, Sandro Ruotolo), while the others are: the old M5 Buccarella, De Falco, Fattori, De Bonis, Di Marzio and Nugnes; Ricardo Merlo and Cario Adriano (Italians abroad); Tommaso Cerno (formerly Pd). In total, therefore, the Giallorossi majority has the support of 168 senators, often accompanied by three of the six senators for life (Giorgio Napolitano, Carlo Rubbia me Renzo Piano they rarely participate in voting).

A margin that has been reduced with the arrival of Carlo Doria, winner of the supplementary in Sardinia announced to replace the pentastellata Vittoria Bogo Deledda (who died last March) and that she risks being shortened further if Lotito receives the green light from Palazzo Madama (leading most to 167). During the hearing at the council, Lotito preferred not to speak, leaving his lawyer, Professor Massimo Luciani, to explain the reasons for the appeal: “The problem is very simple and refers to the ‘governance’ of debris handling“. According to the lawyer,” the college should be assigned to Lotito simply by interpreting the regulations in forceInstead, Senator Carbone, elected with Forza Italia and then passed to the Iv-Psi group, intervened. , having to find myself in this situation puzzles me. I never thought I would be stopped like the abusive senator“.

The Giunta, as anticipated last August, confirmed that, based on the complex mechanism of proportional attribution of the multi-member seats, the seat belonged to Lotito and not to Carbone. In 2018, in fact, these calculations had awarded the school “Campania 3” and had allowed the repechage of Renziano (ex forceista) as the first of those not elected in that school. According to Lotito, on the other hand, the seat obtained with the “rest” mechanism belonged to him, like the first of the unelected ones in the “Campania 1” school. Event that the current Undersecretary of Education in Quota of LeU joined, Peppe De Cristofaro, according to which the seat was assigned to the college “Campania 2”, where he was the first of the non-elected. Based on what they learned, for the annulment of Carbone’s election in favor of the Lazio president, they voted in 12 versus 7. The senator Pietro grasso did not participate in the vote. Three senators were absent, two from the mixed group and one from the M5.