The Chamber is a hotbed: with Lupi, 17 parliamentarians are infected. Fico allows the first postponement of the session. Empasse in remote voting

The House of Representatives it is officially a Covid-19 outbreak. And the construction schedule begins to suffer the first landslides. In the afternoon the news was spread that even the leader of the Mixed group Maurizio Lupi is positive, after the cases already denounced of Francesco Lollobrigida of the Brothers of Italy, Maria Stella Gelmini from Forza Italia and Davide Crippa of the 5 Stars. With Lupi, therefore, the cases of Sars-Cov2 infection among the House group leaders amount to four, for 17 and parliamentary infected, 14 alone in the house.

“Now let’s stop,” shouted the opposition that formally requested the Speaker of the House in the morning. Roberto fico suspend classroom work for at least a week. President Fico agreed to block the discussion of the Zan law on homophobia scheduled for next week.

The appeals to request the remote voting. However, the parties are divided on this. In most she is skeptical Italy Long Live, while the opposition is totally against. For the leaders of the center-right group, “the Constitution and parliamentary regulations should not be bent and modified for a momentary emergency.” Lupi himself maintains that “Parliament is not a voting building. The vote comes to the end of a democratic process. Parliament is where we fight. Remote voting distorts exactly this and also compresses the prerogatives of the opposition“.

So far, the covid absences have not caused particular emergencies even if, at the beginning of the week, there was some fear when it was addressed. voting on budget variance, which required an absolute majority. The Chamber has opened an institutional channel to address the issue. “Next week – explained the president of Montecitorio Roberto fico – The Regulatory Board will discuss how the Chamber should function in an emergency, starting with the issue of remote voting ”. It will begin with the hearings: IT experts and lawyers will be summoned.

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