The security decree has been converted into law. The Chamber approved it with 162 votes in favor and 102 against and one abstention. The text was approved after the vote of confidence and a two-day marathon that ended this morning.
Salvini: “Beautiful day despite the world problems”
«Joy for the approval of the security decree: it is a beautiful day despite the problems worldwide». Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the League Matteo Salvini said this, speaking to journalists in Transatlantico in the Chamber. “I come here, then I go to the Council of Ministers and then I go back to the office for the expensive fuel and I’m satisfied with everything,” added Salvini, speaking to journalists before entering the Chamber for the final vote on the security decree. The deputy prime minister cut short those who asked him if he was worried about the correction to the rule on contributions for voluntary repatriations, which will require a ministerial decree for implementation. «No, no, it’s a beautiful day today despite the problems worldwide. It is a beautiful day – he continued – because this safety decree has a positive effect on the homes of Italians and on the roads traveled by Italians”.
Pd: “The security decree certifies the failure of the government”
During the “river session” there were 106 interventions in the Chamber, of which 58 from the Democratic Party. In the interventions of the democratic deputies, it was underlined how the decree represents ‘the certification of the failure of the Meloni government’s action: we are already at the fourth decree on the matter, proof of the ineffectiveness of the measures adopted. The executive line is also under scrutiny, judged to be ‘always the same: new crimes and higher penalties, without responding to the real security needs of citizens and territories.
Finally, criticism of the method, with “rips and forcing that have compressed the parliamentary debate to the point of the paradox of a Chamber called to vote on a law deemed unconstitutional”. The result, for the PD, is an “unprecedented institutional mess”. During the debate, the Democrats also referred to constitutional principles several times, underlining how it is “profoundly wrong to attack the foundations of democracy, starting from the right to dissent”.