Labor decree, Forza Italia is missing: the center-right goes under in the Commission, the group leader has been summoned. Schlein: “Majority in chaos, it doesn’t stand”

Majority forces ko in the Senate on the Labor decree: the vote of the Budget commission on the opinion on the new package of amendments (about ten, by the rapporteur Paola Mancini of FdI) ended in a tie with 10 majority senators ((absent the representatives of Forza Italy) and as many from the opposition, for which the majority went under. The commission was suspended, given that the opinion necessary to examine the new amendment proposals presented this morning in the classroom. At this point a conference of group leaders will have to be convened to decide how to continue the work. The opposition’s comments are harsh, especially in the Pd area. Dem secretary Elly Schlein is trenchant: “This majority is not standing. ” And she points out: “The majority is in chaos. After what happened in the Chamber on the Mes, with the Ministry of the Economy disavowing the government’s propaganda, today in the Senate it is unable to get amendments prepared at the last minute approved, which tried to patch up the many opprobrium contained in the Labor Law, and it goes under” . She adds: «The Labor Law was one of the programmatic banners of the Meloni government. Today the forces of the majority are not even able to guarantee that the rapporteur’s amendments are approved. The Labor Law is a wrong provision, which must be changed, and we will continue to oppose rules that increase precariousness and poverty. The truth is that this executive is not standing, unable to pass from propaganda to deeds”.

The majority group leader has been summoned
The Senate group leaders’ conference has been convened. The vice president of the Senate, Gian Marco Centinaio, said it in the Chamber to overcome the impasse on the Labor decree, blocked on the opinion on the amendments of the Brothers of Italy due to lack of numbers. Centinaio specified that he made the decision after having heard the president Ignazio La Russa “in the shortest possible way”.

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21 June 2023

The criticisms of the opposition
“There is opposition. The sun and the lunch break did the rest. It’s a good thing that Meloni had also recommended #dllavoro “. Democratic Party Senator Filippo Sensi writes on Twitter after the majority failed to approve the amendments presented by the rapporteur to the Labor decree, currently under examination by the fifth commission of Palazzo Madama. “This was a symbolic provision for this majority approved on May 1st and instrumentally defined as the Labor decree but it turned into the first major failure of this majority” pursue Daniele Manca and Beatrice Lorenzin, Dem senators in the Senate Budget Committee, who comment on the non-approval of the opinion on the financial profiles of the Labor decree, because the center-right did not have sufficient numbers (also due to the absence of Forza Italia MPs, reports the Pd) and the vote ended in a tie, which in the Senate is equivalent to a “no”. And referring to the majority groups, they added: «They were reduced to the last minute with amendments by the rapporteur for the plenary session, without being able to approve amendments in committee. It is incomprehensible how a majority does not have the conditions to approve amendments”. Manca and Lorenzin also recalled that “as of this morning we have been asking for technical reports which arrived late and which have led to delays for the courtroom and which show a majority in crisis over a symbolic provision”.
“Majority in Chaos”
«What happened in the Budget Commission is very serious, the Pd group is asking for the immediate convening of the conference of group leaders because there are regulatory issues that we have a duty to address. We found the explanation of the president of the Budget Commission out of place and quite awkward, it’s not that since they arrived at the 99th gate and then go back they can ignore it: there is no such thing as an equal vote, as he said, an amendment is rejected if there is no more vote and therefore today the Commission rejected the amendments. The majority are in chaos.” Francesco Boccia, president of the Democratic Party group in the Senate, said this in the Chamber. “The theme – continued Boccia – is also of merit, today the majority and the government were trying to put patches worse than the hole on the equivalence index, on accidents at work, on free work, on the use of workers who once took citizenship income. All issues that we have contested and on which our proposals have not been accepted, then the majority and the government have patched up proposals to fill these gaps. The result is there for all to see: today all the amendments presented by the majority were rejected, it is not possible to re-propose them and it is no longer possible to tolerate the a la carte regulation, so the majority, humiliating Parliament, presents last-minute amendments and then pretend to carry on as if nothing had happened. We demand respect for the rules and the convening of the conference of group leaders first and of the work and budget commissions to return to analyzing a text that will no longer be able to include the amendments rejected today”.
Italia Viva: the majority argue and punish the fragile
«What was announced as the largest cut in the tax wedge did not see the majority guarantee the quorum. No money for workplace injuries or fragile workers. This is the consequence of the irresponsible behavior of a divided and quarrelsome majority”. This was stated by Senator Silvia Fregolent, of the presidency of the Action group – Italia Viva – Renew Europe. «It is clear that as regards the last, the most fragile, this government does not care, too busy discussing internally. The majority don’t think they can count on us to guarantee the quorum and make up for their shortcomings » she concludes.