Casellati-Calderoli meeting. Pressing League: “Autonomy before presidentialism, faster times”

One-hour meeting on presidentialism between the Minister for Reforms, Elizabeth Casellati and the Lega delegation with the Minister for Autonomies, Robert Calderoli and the parliamentary group leaders Riccardo Molinari and Massimiliano Romeo. The latter, after the conversation, let it be known that the reforms of presidentialism and differentiated autonomy “go hand in hand because they are both part of the centre-right programme, but it is clear that for us autonomy comes first, also because it has a simpler legislative procedure”.

Minister Casellati is at work. Her goal is to revolutionize the Constitution by introducing presidentialism and aiming for June as the first port of call by presenting a bill to be submitted to Parliament. The minister therefore continues her ‘consultations’ started in December with the majority: today it was the turn of the Northern League delegation, tomorrow it’s the turn of Us Moderates and Thursday the opposition begins, from Italia Viva and Azione. Next week, probably Monday, you will meet M5S and Pd. “I hope to finish this round of listening by the end of January,” said the Minister for Reforms.

“We discussed the various models” of presidentialism “existing in Europe and in the world and we are making a general reasoning to understand which reform to propose here – commented Riccardo Molinari, group leader of the League in the Chamber – We will have to see which typology best suits ours Constitution and our republican history – added Romeo – It was a meeting to evaluate and also explore what the tools are in other countries. We explained to the minister what our observations are, we will see those of the other parties and then we will draw the conclusions ” , concluded Molinari.