It will go to the polling stations but will not retire the five electoral cards. A week after the vote, Giorgia Meloni dissolve the reserve and lets you know that will not desert the ballot boxes on 8 and 9 June. His choice will be to express himself through the gesture of Do not withdraw the cards with referendum questions, at work and citizenship, promoted by the CGIL.
“I’m going to vote, I do not withdraw the card: it is one of the options”, replies the Prime Minister to the reporters who intercept it between the altar of the homeland and via dei Fori Imperiali, on the sidelines of the celebrations for the Republic Day. But, Instruction manual for the vote in hand, the mode announced by Meloni is equivalent to the abstentionimmediately notice the opposition parties that support the referendum.
“The voter can refrain from participation in the vote for one or more of them and therefore can legitimately collect the card for some referendums and refuse it for others – says the Viminal’s vademecum -. The tellers take note, both in the boxes printed on the back of the register cover page, and in the sectional list alongside the name of the elector, the referendum in which the aforementioned does not participate and for which it cannot therefore be considered as a voter “.
In other words: Meloni’s choice is to go to the polls but not participate in the achievement of the quorum of 50% plus one, necessary to validate the referendum.
«Meloni makes fun of the Italians saying ‘I’m going to vote but did not vote, “attacks Elly Schlein. «On the other hand, to say if it is favorable or contrary to the 5 questions on work and citizenship, confirms that he wants to sink the referendums and – continues the secretary of the Democratic Party – which fears the achievement of the quorum because not to withdraw the cards is equivalent to not voting.
Meloni is afraid of participation and telling the truth that is under everyone’s eyes: It is contrary to counteract precariousness and improve the citizenship law. Instead of inviting abstention, and to do it on the day of the Republic Day, at least the courage to go and vote no. We – reiterates the dem leader – instead we will vote convinced 5 yes, and we will be many! ».
“Indigna but it is not surprising that Meloni will not withdraw the card and therefore will not vote in the referendum of 8 and 9 June in which it is chosen whether to increase the rights and protections of the workers against precariousness, accidents at work, layoffs – says the president of the M5S Giuseppe Conte -. After all, in almost 30 years of politics, he did nothing to protect those who work and break his back every day, the precarious guys who are not lucky enough to have made a career in politics. It is shameful that this message of abstention compared to an important choice arrives from a Prime Minister on June 2, a symbol of a country that chooses the Republic, of the first time for women admitted to a national vote ».
«Giorgia Meloni says he will vote but he will not collect the cards: a clever but false declaration – says the secretary of Più Europe Riccardo Magi, President of the Promoting Committee of the referendum on citizenship – because you cannot go to vote not by withdrawing the cards of any referendum. An invitation in fact to abstention therefore, which makes it pale mainly because they made during the ceremony of June 2, when the Italians with a referendum chose the Republic ».
“Obviously Meloni has time to waste to make fun of the Italians. But ordinary people instead have no time or deals or rights to be thrown away – he says, for his part, Nicola Fratoianni of AVS -. On 8 and 9 June they will go to the seat and will not make the shameful pantomime not to collect the card ». «Only the Prime Minister was missing, and the list of sabottors of the referendum is complete – he adds Angelo Bonellialways by AVS -: first the president of the Senate, then the ministers, now also the premier. They do not vote because they know they are minority in the country, and use abstention that in words say they want to fight in every election ».
The deputy group leader of Fratelli d’Italia defends the premier in the Chamber, Alfredo Antoniozzi. “Giorgia Meloni expressed a completely legitimate position on the referendum,” he says. “We too will vote without collecting the card. Three years ago the center -left boycott the referendum on justice not going to vote but nobody said anything. The incredible data is that the Democratic Party wants to erase himself because those laws were voted by them during the Renzi government and today they are repenting ».
«The last one I heard is that you go to the polling station but you don’t vote. And if this reasoning comes from the Prime Minister, it means that he thinks that we are all of the C ….. because it is like saying I go to church but not to mass ». This was said by the Secretary General of the CGIL, Maurizio Landiniin Canosa di Puglia during the visit to the Study and Research Center for Farmalabor. Those who invite you not to vote “think of using the democratic crisis in order not to reach the quorum and mean that they are afraid, it means that it is good that people die at work, that they are precarious”, he continued that “those who do not go to vote are those who are worse and it is evident that” who invites you not to vote “are favoring the reduction of the quality of democracy”.