Double move by the center-right on the electoral law front. The majority, first of all, requests and obtains from group leaders the scheduling of the reform in the Chamber for 26 June: in good time for a possible quota in July and, in any case, for a first approval by the summer break of the works. An initiative announced but which involves quite a bit of controversy in a meeting that lasts over an hour and which sees protests, vibrating, from the entire wide field. “It is not possible to continue to proceed by force by putting on the calendar a text that is currently made up of press releases and indiscretions”, they say in unison at the end of the meeting. “No lack of respect – is the reply from FdI with Giovanni Donzelli – we waited for the general discussion to end before depositing the text and we also accepted some indications from the opposition”.
But the protest does not subside at all and continues in the commission when the center-right – and this is move number two – deposits the new text resulting from the filings agreed upon internally. With some changes compared to the rumors circulated in recent days such as the chapter regarding voting abroad and the specification that the lists that do not present, together with the mark, the indication of the person to be proposed as prime minister will not be admitted and no mention of the question of preferences. Changes which, if added to those already announced on the prize and on the ballot, the center-left definitely considers to be of no small importance. And on which he asks for time in the face of a calendar that sees, instead, only one day of hearings on June 3rd and the vote for its adoption the day after. “The forcing on the electoral law – accuses the Dem group leader Chiara Braga, making a direct appeal to the President of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana – takes place on the text and on the times”. This is not a simple corrective intervention: the regulatory system has been completely ridisegnato”https://gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/politica/2026/05/28/la-legge-elettorale-in-aula-dal-26-giugno-lira-delle-opposizioni-50f46448-328c-458a-bf4d-7e117023bd80/.”They prevent us from having any discussion, they want to go to the vote immediately”, accuses Avs Fliberto Zaratti. “We cannot accept a method of this type”, says the M5s group leader Riccardo Ricciardi. “The majority and the government take on a serious responsibility”, underlines Riccardo Magi, secretary of +Europa. ‘They are only thinking about their balances, while the Italians cannot make it to the end of the month’, says Maria Elena Boschi from Iv dialogue and continues to profess to be open to changes that do not distort the text. The text “is not unamendable”, underlines Donzelli.
“If there is an acceptable amendment – he highlights – we have no reason not to approve it. But if there is an amendment that overturns the system, for example by canceling the majority bonus, we cannot accept it”https://gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/politica/2026/05/28/la-legge-elettorale-in-aula-dal-26-giugno-lira-delle-opposizioni-50f46448-328c-458a-bf4d-7e117023bd80/.”The observations received on the electoral law that emerged during the seventy hearings were examined carried out by the commission”, also highlights Angelo Rossi, rapporteur of Fratelli d’Italia in the commission. In fact, it is above all the prime minister’s party that defends and valorises the work on the reform. At least for today, upon closer inspection, there are no comments from the rest of the allies who also signed the new text, and asked together with the others for the text to be scheduled in the Chamber for the last week of June. Claiming the reform is the leader of Noi Moderati Maurizio Lupi who highlights how a text is being presented that “finally gives clarity and stability to the voters”. Lupi, however, also reiterates how his party will push on the issue of preferences, a point that is destined to continue to be discussed within the majority in the coming months. “Personally I am for preferences but the parliamentarians will evaluate”, says the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa.