what happened with the Def in the Chamber – Corriere.it

ROME – You may not have taken into account that with the cut in parliamentarians the free ride is over for deputies and senators, because compared to the last legislature the numbers are smaller. And go ahead that the coordination between the government and the majority groups has not worked for once, even if when I was at Palazzo Chigi – recalls Maria Elena Boschi – I even knew how many in the Chamber had a fever. But the blue pencil error that knocked the government upside down in the House is incredible. Since the vote on the resolution for the budget variance has constitutional value, an absolute majority was needed for the policy act to be approved. In the centre-right, on the other hand, they assumed that the deputies on mission would lower the quorum.

Faced with an oversight by a novice law student, no one noticed the justified absence of ministers, commission presidents, group leaders. Thus, when the result appeared on the Montecitorio display, it took the government a few minutes to realize the disaster. In the general bewilderment, they say that Giancarlo Giorgetti approached the opposition benches, even though they didn’t immediately understand what had happened. With a laugh that hid his nervousness, the Economy Minister – known for being allergic to budget slippages – ironically thanked his opponents who had spoken out against the executive document: After all, you supported my line… .

But since then there has been nothing to laugh about in the centre-right. The ugly mess in the House is now forcing the government and MPs into a tour de force over the weekend to allow Giorgia Meloni to approve the cut in the tax wedge on May 1st. The mistake will not be the result of political malice, but yesterday in the Transatlantic an authoritative representative of the majority whispered that in any case it was a small lesson for the premier. And while some deputies who had skipped the vote rushed to Montecitorio with gloomy faces, Meloni’s oldest allies recalled a nefarious precedent, when for much less in 2011, on the state report, Berlusconi had to leave Palazzo Chigi.

Then it was a maneuver, this time it was the fair of inexperience. Because – they argued in the small groups of the Democratic Party – if we had been in government and we had understood that the numbers were at risk, we would have been smarter. Franceschini certainly would have asked a vice president of the opposition Chamber to chair the session. Instead, they also lost the vote of Rampelli who led the Chamber. And already laughter. The center-right’s impossible mission, that is to go under despite the overwhelming majority, was accomplished by the hands of the deputies on a mission. But also for some misunderstandings with the opposing groups.

Apart from the fact that in the past budget deviations had (almost) always been approved unanimously, in this case the government believed that at least the Third Pole would have voted in the Chamber as it had done in the Senate: that is, in favour. And in fact Luigi Marattin, of Italia Viva, had invited the group to support the resolution with systemic reasoning. But the Calenda boys opposed it to avoid being singled out as a crutch of the government. Schizophrenia is in the DNA of our alliance, an Action executive joked with amusement.

The usual suspects also lurked between M5S and Pd, where there are those who theorize that Giuseppe Conte’s recent coaxing towards Meloni is linked to the appointments: the prime minister would in fact have promised former minister Alfonso Bonafede a place on the presidential council for tax justice. Therefore yesterday the dem monitored the presence of the grillini in the Chamber until the bang. Botto who overshadowed the premier’s visit to London, as well as the agreement reached by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi with the governors of the Democratic Party on the state of emergency. In Giorgia they go around uhh if they go around, commented an FdI deputy, just as Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano used a cultured quote to say that the newspapers are already old in the morning and that it was not a slip. The exact opposite of Meloni who recognized the bad slip. Screams of him could be heard from London …