A rule to extend the mandate of the Region against Decaro maneuver
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Politics
NoonDecember 21, 2022 – 10:34 am
The initiative of De Blasi (Lega). The Board in office for 7 months also with the resignation of Emiliano
Of Francesco Strippoli
CHEAT It was supposed to be the sitting for the 2023 regional forecast budget, which has become a session with a thousand political reflections. Because while the financial rules were being discussed, attention was diverted to a particular amendment among the 103 filed yesterday morning. Five lines that aim to extend the legislature by about seven months in the event that the governor Emiliano decides to resign after the possible election to the European parliament (2024). Practically a year before the natural expiry of him and the Regional Council (2025). The amendment was signed by the Northern League Gianfranco De Blasi, president of the institutional affairs commission. That is, the place where the matter itself is discussed. Only here it was decided not to investigate the issue in order to include it in the budget law. In the same way, someone would have liked to introduce the rule on severance pay (Tfm) to regional councilors. The TFM has been postponed and the same could happen with the De Blasi proposal: a decision will be made in the next few hours. The feeling that the Budget is being used to pass everything, without too many public discussions.
Let’s come to the De Blasi proposal, supported by many on the right and left because it lengthens their tenure. The Apulian electoral law provides – as per constitutional obligation – for elections in the event of the resignation (or death or removal) of the president. The proposal simply lengthens the time to get to the vote. It establishes 30 days for the Council to acknowledge the resignation (a new one after the direct election of the governor) and then another 6 months to call new elections. In practice, the Council survives the governor’s resignation for 7 months. Thus the principle of the simul stabunt, simul cadent (they stand together or fall together) which the Constitution indicated with the direct election of the president. Can it be done? It seems so, reading the report accompanying the proposal. Veneto did just like in the De Blasi amendment (which copied the Veneto law) and the Constitutional Court in 2012 saved the text. The automatic dissolution of the Council – reads the report to the amendment – would appear excessively burdensome for the government program and for citizens’ expectations.
Who benefits from the standard? To those who fear leaving the Council prematurely (all groups, none excluded). Who does it harm? Certainly to Antonio Decaro, indicated as a possible candidate for president after Emiliano. The two have been underground duetting for some time. If the governor were to become an MEP to find a way forward for his otherwise uncertain political future, the Council would survive him for seven months. And Decaro would remain boiling before the elections, given that he has already made it known (underground) that he does not want to be an external regional councilor, perhaps vice president, in 2024, appointed in time by Emiliano. A Decaro in a bain-marie would help his centre-right opponents. But the law does not displease his internal opponents on the centre-left. For example, that part, Emilianists and 5 Stars, which requires some explicit (and not underground) answers from him on what to do in Bari to solve the puzzle of the candidacy for mayor: the essential position for the Regionals tender. The 5 Stars, of course, have their eyes on the position of mayor. Beyond what is said and what is leaked, they have no intention of presenting their own candidate for the Region (yesterday there was even talk of Giuseppe Conte). Having said that, the 5 Stars want to count in the Region and in the Municipalities. They want to have a say in Brindisi and Foggia (where they vote in ’23) and in Bari (’24). The decarians are nervous. Francesco Paolicelli (Pd) defines the De Blasi proposal as an armchair saver. Fabiano Amati (Action) declares himself against: he is surprised that the proponent of both the opposition and on paper should be willing to shorten the legislature, not lengthen it. But the world is now turning upside down. Today we will know if the amendment will be voted on or will go into a special bill, perhaps with the Tfm.
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December 21, 2022 | 10:34
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