Cutro decree, government-majority clash in the Senate on the abolition of special protection. The Pd: “I’m in chaos”

After days of deadlock in the commission on the new decree on migrants, the Cutro decree, today the tug of war moved to the Senate Hall. And the battle of the amendments has revealed the divisions in the majority, especially between the government and the League. After all Giorgia Meloni had already leaked, as reported by Republicthe irritation against Matthew Salvini, which at all costs wants to abolish the special protection provided by the Cutro decree. And it was precisely on this amendment that the battle in the Senate took place. Then resolved with the final approval of the amendment. But let’s proceed in order.

Palazzo Madama in the afternoon began the discussion and the vote on the 300 amendments to the text of the Cutro decree on migrants. A discussion that proceeded briskly for a few hours, until we reached the crux of the clash with the oppositions: the question of the abolition of special protection. The majority asked to “reformulate” their amendment to article 7 of the Cutro decree concerning special permits. The Senator Maurice Gasparrithe first signatory of the amendment, asked to be able to delete a paragraph of its text, which in turn deleted from the immigration framework law the references to international legislation on the protection of human rights with regard to requests for permits by immigrants .

At this point the undersecretary Nicholas Molteni, called to express his opinion on the amendments to article 7 of the Cutro decree, asked to set aside the majority amendment on the special permits first signed by Gasparri because “the proposed reformulation was not well understood”. Hence the need to suspend the session to define exactly the text of the amendment to be modified. And after the break, voting resumed and the House approved the Gasparri amendment which limits the issue of special permits. The session was adjourned tomorrow.

But the opposition attacks the majority. “What happened in the Chamber gives a sense of chaos in the majority”, argued the leader of the Democratic Party at Palazzo Madama, Francesco Boccia. “The serious thing – he added – is that the government admits that it did not understand the majority’s amendment. We will insist that there are also other changes to the provisions of the decree which are in violation of human rights”. And the dem Andrew Giorgis he adds: “They realized – that the amendment of the majority is in clear contrast with the international and European obligations to which Italy must abide. It is no coincidence that the government has never expressed itself on it”.