Ukraine, NGOs and Milleproroghe decrees: the traffic jam at the beginning of the year worries the majority

The Aiuti quater decree, at the last step before becoming law. The Ukraine decree with the new shipment of weapons and vehicles. The Elections decree, the Ischia decree, the Milleproroghe. And the migrant decree – recently approved by the Council of Ministers – which provides for a ‘squeeze’ on NGOs. At the same time, the intention to start the process of the bill on differentiated autonomy, dear to the League, the text of which prepared by the Minister for Regional Affairs and Autonomies, Robert Calderoli it is now being examined by the Prime Minister, in the Northern League’s hope of cashing in on the go-ahead by January. Here is the traffic jam at the beginning of the year. A maze of decrees and reforms that the majority will have to untangle at the start of 2023. A mass of commitments that worries the majority, after the agitated marathons in the commission and the Chamber, between the maneuver and the Rave decree, which kept deputies and senators in Parliament until on New Year’s Eve.

Government and constitutional reforms: presidentialism

She was the Prime Minister herself, Giorgia Meloni, on the occasion of the press conference at the end of the year, to include constitutional reforms – presidentialism – among the priorities of government action, not excluding a bill initiated by the executive should the opposition point to the quagmire. In the meantime, the minister will move for the reforms Elizabeth Casellati, who has already “talked to the majority and will do so with the minority forces by January”, explained the prime minister. The option of creating a Bicameral also remains on the table, perhaps leaner and faster than those of the past, but if the opposition forces were to open up to confrontation, then we could proceed following the ordinary route, i.e. in the Constitutional Affairs Commission . Even with majority blows. Then there is the tax chapter: “We intend to move forward on the subject of tax reform”, assured Meloni. But at the moment it’s all in an embryonic state.

The conversion into law of various decrees

Waiting to understand which new measures the government intends to focus on in 2023, the House and Senate will be busy with the conversion into law of various decrees. The first to be fired because the deadline is closer – January 18 – is aid decree quater, which contains the new package of measures in favor of households and businesses against high energy prices. Already approved by the Senate with a vote of confidence, the text of the provision will land on Monday 9 January in the Chamber Hall for general discussion. It is not excluded that the government also resorts to the question of trust in the passage to Montecitorio to avoid the risk of a blitz by the opposition in the highly controversial part of the new Superbonus rules (a matter on which the government has intervened again also in maneuver).

The Senate Hall, on the other hand, will be busy from Tuesday 10 January with the Ukrainian decree, which provides for the extension of the authorization for the sale of military vehicles, materials and equipment. The provision must be converted into law by 31 January: it is in its first passage through Palazzo Madama and will therefore also have to be examined by Montecitorio.

Then there are the Ischia decreeapproved by the CDM in early December after the landslide that devastated part of the island and the Elections decree, which provides for the whole of 2023 that voting operations take place both on Sunday and on Monday. The parliamentary process will begin in days Milleproroghe decreedue at the end of February.

It’s still. There is the decree to protect the national interest in strategic productive sectors, fired by the Council of Ministers on 1 December. And also add the decree with the rules on NGOs: fired by the CDM between Christmas and New Year’s, the provision provides for a ‘code of conduct’ which regulates the sea rescue activity by NGOs, with penalties for transgressors, up to the possible confiscation of the ship. The text has not yet been signed by the Head of State and, consequently, has not been published in the Official Gazette.

Differentiated autonomy

Finally, as regards thedifferentiated autonomythe minister Calderoli he reported that he had sent the text of the bill to the Prime Minister. The next step will be the examination and the green light from the CDM, which the Northern League minister aims to collect by January. After which the bill will be discussed in a joint conference with local authorities, to then return to the Council of Ministers. The last word will be up to Parliament. But in the meantime the League is pressing, Meloni is holding back. None of these steps are taken for granted.