Forza Italia: “Correcting the anti-rave rule”. But FdI and Lega could oppose

The guarantee wing of the government now strikes a beat and makes an appointment in Parliament. Because that rave rule is a big mess, it’s poorly written, and it defines too vague a scope. It will have to be changed to avoid too much execution. The jurists have pointed this out in the past few hours, speaking of legislative illiteracy, in addition to the opposition. And now also from Forza Italia they are asking that in converting the decree, the law is softened. “It is not even imaginable the prejudice, and least of all by means of a criminal law, of rights widely protected by the Constitution. We believe that the excess of wiretapping is never an edifying sport and, if this trail were shared, one could think to a parliamentary modification of the maximum penalty to avoid them “, said this morning the Deputy Minister of Justice Francesco Paolo Sisto. “If we need to intervene to clarify the typicality of the law and thus avoid the instrumental accusations of applicability to cases of legitimate exercise of the right to express one’s opinion, this could happen in the context of parliamentary debate. One thing is certain: this is not and will not be a liberticidal norm“, added the blue exponent.

But on the other hand, the mere fact of having to specify that the provision does not intend to infringe any constitutional principle, gives the idea of ​​how the Council of Ministers has worked too quickly, perhaps chasing the headlines. Even the words of Giorgia Meloni who, claiming “a rule of which I am proud”, wanted to “reassure citizens that we will not deny anyone to express dissent”. And this will probably be the case, we will see, but this is not the only criticism: because with a sentence of up to six years – how to foresee the decree – it opens up to the possibility of intercepting the suspects. A little too much. And in fact, “there are provisions in contrast with the principles of Forza Italia”, explains the vice-president of the Force Chamber, Giorgio Mulè, in an interview with La Stampa, while admitting that the government’s decision stems from a real need. But he also assures us that “in Parliament we will think about the foreseen penalty which for us must be no more than 5 years”. The deputy focuses on the critical issues concerning wiretapping, looking at “the excessive discretion left to prosecutors. So it is right to put some stakes”.

Mulè says so but it is a bit of a summary of the ideas expressed by Nordio in recent years. The Minister of Justice, it is not a mystery, has shown a certain impatience with the first moves of the government. And there are those who already see in these tensions the first fracture in the dominance. The owner of via Arenula, meanwhile, says that the anti-rave rule “does not affect, nor could it affect in the least the sacrosanct rights of free expression of thought and free assembly”. But he leaves the door open: “Its complex formulation is subjected to scrutiny by Parliament, to which the function of approving or modifying it according to its sovereign intentions is devolved.”

The decree will have to be converted by the end of the year but, net of the declarations of the minister and the most guaranteed, it is not certain that the road to change is so obvious. In fact, in the CDM it was the FdI-Lega axis that pushed for such a harsh rule. In the first proposal of the Minister Piantedosi it was even foreseen the use of preventive interceptions for the alleged organizers of the rave, then it seems Tajani intervened. The fact is that Meloni’s party is pulling straight ahead for now, with the deputy Federico Mollicone which sees the decree already applied “rightly to occupied public or private buildings as happens in Rome”. It is a bit like the line that comes from the Carroccio: “The text can be changed with the contribution of everyone”, admits Nicola Molteni, Undersecretary for the Interior – not just any one. But the general system, he tells the Journal, that is not discussed: “We cannot go back and we want to go back. We will evaluate the criticisms, but we are not willing to give up the program for which we were elected”. Even with the votes of Forza Italia.