Accelerate, and present a text already at the beginning of the year, once the budget law has been closed and before the referendum on the separation of careers. To then close once the yes to the justice reform has been received. Or take more time, to seek consensus also among the ranks of the oppositions who are currently opposing, in public and private, a firm no to the revision of the voting rules. These are the two options on Giorgia Meloni’s table, it being understood that the electoral law issue is on the table and the majority has every intention of addressing it. But at the moment a decision on the presentation of a text in Parliament has not yet been reached, and there would also be doubts about the timing among the allies. While the long round of autumn regional elections ends, everyone reads and defends the outcome of the polls. There is no loser, according to the comments of the day after a vote that does not even record a change of color but changes the internal balance quite a lot.
In Veneto the composition of the Council will be very different from that of five years ago, some observers point out, while others, among the Melonians, do not hide the fact that they have perhaps paid a little too much for having been “generous” with the Northern League allies in the Veneto. From the party of Via Bellerio it is underlined, however, that the regional elections confirm that the local vote has a different value from the national one. And also that the good result of the Northern League administrators cannot fail to be taken into due consideration – read Milan and Lombardy, the next matches which will see the duel between the allies repeat. The other issue that holds center stage in the Transatlantic group, however, is the electoral law. The opposition, strengthened by the victories of the united progressive camp, now have less interest than ever in starting a negotiation, this is the belief that is also circulating in the centre-right: “Why should they help us?” one of the arguments that is made among the exponents of the majority, referring to the issue of single-member constituencies, which would be overcome with the reform that Meloni and his men have in mind. “It is undoubtedly true that there was this division among those who are undoubtedly united today”, is the play on words of the president of the Fdi senators, Lucio Malan, who confirms proportional representation as the way to modify the electoral law, with a “majority premium” as “one of the hypotheses on the table. The scheme doesn’t even displease Forza Italia, as reiterated by the Italian spokesperson Raffaele Nevi. His party, however, he points out, remains “fond of the current method and that is whoever gets the most votes becomes Prime Minister”.
The right, sinking from the opposition, wants to do the “meloncellum” (says Riccardo Magi from +Europa) and “change the electoral law to” maintain power “, insists the dem Francesco Boccia. “The center-left wins” and indeed has taken “more votes than the center-right” and now Meloni “wants to change the rules” because he knows that otherwise he will lose, Matteo Renzi’s summary. Elly Schlein denies that there are, or have been, contacts with the prime minister on this point. “Show us a text and we will evaluate.” We’ll see whether it’s before or after the referendum.