The Committee for the elections of the Chamber accepted the appeal of Andrea Gentile (FI) on the seat contested by the M5s in Calabria. This will result in the forfeiture of the M5s deputy Elisa Scutellà, if the Chamber ratifies the decision. Now it will be up to the Montecitorio Rules Committee, within twenty days, to draw up the report to be sent to the president of the Chamber who, together with the group leaders, will set the date for the arrival in the Chamber of the opinion with which the Elections Committee will propose the proclamation of the Gentile has been elected, and he will have to be put to the vote of the Assembly.
«It’s a huge injustice, not for the M5s, but for democracy, for respect for the vote of the Calabrians.” The president of the M5s, Giuseppe Conte, said this, commenting on the assignment to Fi of a seat in the Chamber until now occupied by the M5s. «It is a difficult land, a land where there are many investigations into the mafia political exchange of votes, there are many investigations regarding a well-tested patronage system. The result today, through a rewriting of the rules for interpreting votes, is not a wrong, a wound to the M5s, but to the free vote of Calabrians who have exercised their democratic rights.”