«I guarantee compliance with deadlines, no provisional exercises»- Corriere.it

Black smoke from the group leaders conference of Deputieswhich should have fixed the calendar for the examination of the Maneuver in Parliament.

The meeting, explained at the end, has been adjourned and could be held tonight or tomorrow.

The Speaker of the House, Lorenzo Fontanaafter more than an hour of debate, he reserved the right to convene a new group leader tonight or tomorrow morning after speaking with the president of the budget commission.

The premier Giorgia MeloniHowever, he assured that he intends to ensure compliance with the deadlines: There will be no, he said, theprovisional exercise.

The majority reiterated that it is necessary to close the exam in the Chamber at the latest in the night between 23 and 24 December. a complicated but urgent maneuver that Italy and the Italians are waiting for. Our intention in these days to work all the time necessary to bring the maneuver home within the terms established by law because what citizens expect from us, he says Andrea Tremaglia, deputy of the Brothers of Italy and member of the Budget commission in the Chamber, interviewed by Rai Parlamento. The committee will find the square, there is no split in the center-right. We have clear ideas about the priorities for Italians.

Opposition: Unprecedented situation

The opposition complains that the exam is suspended in committee until tonight. We asked the Speaker of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana, for an intervention. I will receive a whole series of letters from the opposition on the inadmissibility, on the forcing that has been made. We no longer adhere to any agreements of any kind regarding timing. First we want to understand what the government’s intentions are on the budget maneuver and on the possibilities that the opposition has of speaking with the government on the maneuver itself, declares the president of the deputies of the Democratic Party, Deborah Serracchiani, at the end of the conference of the Montecitorio group leaders. This situation is unprecedented. We are on 19 December, not a single amendment has been approved, there is no opinion from the rapporteurs and yesterday the government arrived at what is in fact a substitute maneuver, in which, among other things, reference is made to regulatory provisions which, as you know, cannot be subject of the budget law. The president of the commission made them admissible and therefore we ask the president of the Fontana Chamber to intervene, adds the group leader of Azione-Italia viva in the Chamber, Matteo Richetti.