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All Italy is in crisis before the next elections of September 20 and 21, 2020 by voting for the renewal of regional councils (in 7 Regions), municipal councils (in more than 1,100 municipalities) and throughout Italy for the referendum confirming the law that cuts 345 between deputies and senators.
Few people know, however, that around Election Day Parliament closes its doors: work in the Assembly – the beating heart of the legislative body – en discontinued early next week from September 14 to 18. A “tradition” that has been going on for years, as the Honorable Member pointed out. Matteo richetti during today’s interview at YouTube channel Money.it, and that serves to allow electoral propaganda.
Instead, according to a large part of public opinion, this would be the umpteenth excuse to lighten the already meager agenda. Sessions will resume next week, when the House and Senate must complete the conversion process of the August decree before the deadline set by law on October 13, 2020.
Parliament closed before the elections: party or propaganda in the territories?
Near the vote, the deputies and senators were “removed” until next week: the first Assembly in the Chamber is scheduled for 3:00 pm on Tuesday, September 22, while in the Senate the following day. Until then there will be no agendas, debates, votes, parliamentary interpellations and not even motions and questions.
This is not a novelty, but the well-established practice of suspend work in the Assembly to allow parliamentarians to do election campaign on television or make speeches, interviews and meetings in the territories affected by the vote. A noble and constitutionally guaranteed objective, but which these days seems to clash with the real needs of the country: efficiency and speed in the conversion into law of the numerous decrees issued after the emergence of Covid.
Certain that many deputies and senators will really be involved in the electoral campaign, particularly fierce in recent days, there is no no way to check and verify that all the parliamentarians “in recess” take to the streets to make propaganda or to stay at home or on vacation.
In any case in the 24 ore Before the vote, the so-called electoral silence is triggered and therefore any form of electoral campaign through rallies, rallies, billboards and interviews on radio or television will be prohibited. In addition, on the days reserved for voting (therefore September 20 and 21) any form of propaganda is prohibited within a radius of 200 meters from the entrance to the polling stations.
