Rave decree, the government in a pinch resorts to the “guillotine”: vote immediately, definitive ok to the text with 183 yes and 116 no

“I suspend the session for the holding of the meeting of the Conference of Group Leaders convened immediately”. So the Speaker of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana in the Chamber. Expected words, inevitable words. Because the government, in order to be able to get the approval of the Rave decree by this evening, on pain of decay, had only one option: the “guillotine”. That procedure, permitted by parliamentary regulations, which provides for the “cutting” of discussions on agendas. The group leaders’ conference approved, the opposition protests. But the vote of confidence will come, as the government wanted. And the decree, complete with important amendments such as the one on impedimental prison and the reinstatement of No Vax health workers, will be saved. “We were forced,” said President Fontana.