The handshake, after almost three hours of discussion at the Palazzo d’Orleans, came about the reform that rand will introduce direct elections in the former Provinceson the opening of the Quater Budget to amendments by deputies and on the introduction in Sicily of support for poor families as long as it is visibly different from citizenship income.
While awaiting field checks, party secretaries and center-right group leaders have signed a pact with Renato Schifani which is equivalent to a short-term road map.
The first agreement is on the Provinces. After the defeat of Constitutional Court, which reiterated its no to the (eighteenth) postponement of the electionsalbeit second level, just passed at the Ars, the majority decided to bring the law reintroducing direct elections back to the chamber.
In truth, it is a text that has already been rejected in the Chamber twice last year because it does not appeal to the deputies who would find competitors in their own constituencies.
Today it will already be examined by the Budget Commission, where the coverage must be found to call rallies with universal suffrage and not limited to mayors and municipal councilors of the territory as required by the law in force: in the first instance 5 million will be allocated this morning. But when fully operational, about fifteen more will be needed to guarantee the salaries of presidents, councils and councillors.
The agreement plans to circumvent both the objection of the Council and the foreseeable challenge to the law that has just postponed the elections by taking advantage of some calendar margins: 60 days will pass before Rome intervenes and in the meantime the Ars should pass the law on which it is the agreement was reached yesterday. Translation: the direct election should return to the chamber in early January, after the Quater Budget and the budget for 2025. And it should already contain a date for the elections, to overcome the challenge of the Consulta.
Furthermore, Salvo Pogliese, secretary of the Brothers of Italy and senator, has guaranteed that his party will introduce into the national stability law, by December, a provision that gives coverage to the reform that the Region is preparing to launch.
