FdI on the prescription asks to return to the Orlando law. But the Democratic Party: let’s keep Cartabia

They don’t quite know how to behave, which line to marry. In the Democratic Party they wonder about what to do. Displaced by the majority on the prescription issue, they are now racking their brains: “What shall we do?”. The news is that yesterday the Brothers of Italy presented a bill to the Justice Committee in the Chamber to review the reform of the prescription. Basically rejecting the effects of the Bonafede law and returning to the dictates of the Orlando reform, which takes the name of the former minister of the Democratic Party. A great opening on the subject towards the dem, who have always denounced the distortions of Bonafede, only partially modified with the application of the Cartabia reform.

“I think there is broad consensus in reflecting on the prescription. There was already a proposal from the opposition, that of Costa. We presented ours. Then we will discuss details and solutions on the merits with everyone. And I think it will also be the subject of a more comprehensive intervention by the government“, said the chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the House, Cyrus Male, exponent of the Melonian party. The reference to the text of the Third Pole is not accidental, because the centrists themselves were among the most enthusiastic upon learning of the bill’s presentation. “It’s an important occasion“, said Enrico Costa himself who closely follows the dossier on the statute of limitations. And who in December, in the folds of the Rave decree, managed to get the majority to approve an agenda which committed the government to review the mechanisms for the inadmissibility and the extinction of the crime.

The Five Stars, on the other hand, have already made it known that they are against the return to the Orlando law. And it is right in the middle of the ford between those who are in favor and those who think that the prescription should not be touched that the Democratic Party is now in. The position, if not embarrassed, at least a wait-and-see, was well captured by the senator’s words Walter Verini released at Corriere della Sera. “The Orlando reform was and is going very well for us, but above all for the Italian justice system. Now, however, perhaps the goal should be another: to apply the Cartabia reform. And, in a while, after the necessary monitoring, make the necessary ‘coupons’. Changing it a bit, perhaps going right in the direction of the Orlando law”. This is because, according to the former dem treasurer, “if you want to use the excuse of the statute of limitations to eliminate the Cartabia reform, we find ourselves exposing the judicial offices, the lawyers and citizens to the chaos of a new reform every two years”. A very technical speech which however does not take into account all the political implications. Because if the majority’s proposal is to return to a law written by the Democratic Party, how does the Democratic Party oppose and say that it is better to leave everything as it is?