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October 07, 2019 The group leaders of the majority have reached agreement on the reforms that serve as a counterbalance to the cut of parliamentarians. The commitment document was then signed.

Today the leaders of the majority of the House and Senate have signed a common commitment that will follow the reform of the reduction of parliamentarians, which will be voted on in the next few hours, with four specific points on institutional reforms to offer also to dialogue with the opposition. The document was signed for the 5 Star Movement by Francesco Silvestri and Gianluca Perilli, for the Democratic Party by Graziano Del Rio and Andrea Marcucci, for Italia Viva by Maria Elena Boschi and Davide Faraone, for Liberi and Uguali by Loredana De Petris and Federico Fornaro, for the Senate autonomy group by Julia Unterberger.

The majority group leaders assume the following common commitments, which they offer for dialogue with the opposition forces.

1) The reduction in the number of parliamentarians affects the functioning of the electoral laws of the Chamber and the Senate, aggravating some problematic aspects, with regard to the representation of both political forces and the various territorial communities. Consequently, we undertake to present a new electoral law project for the House and Senate by December in order to more effectively guarantee political and territorial pluralism, gender equality and strict compliance with the principles of the Constitutional Court's case law electoral system and the protection of linguistic minorities. This is what we read in the document signed by the group leaders of M5s, Pd, Iv, Leu and Autonomie.

2) We commit ourselves to intervene - the document reads - in the current month of October, on the project concerning the lowering of the age for the Senate of the Republic in the course of examination in that branch of Parliament to equate the requirements of active and passive electorate of the Chamber and Senate. We are also committed to presenting a text designed to modify the principle of the regional base for the election of the Senate and to rebalance the weight of regional delegates who integrate Parliament in joint session for the election of the President of the Republic, starting from election after that of the new Chambers in reduced composition.

3) The reduction in the number of parliamentarians implies some interventions on parliamentary regulations. We look forward to a rapid work by the Junta for House and Senate Regulations to reform the current Regulations so as to efficiently adapt them to the new number of parliamentarians, guaranteeing in both branches of Parliament the linguistic minorities to be able to form autonomous groups or components. At the same time this reform is essential to enhance the role of the Parliament with interventions aimed at harmonizing the functioning of the two Houses and structurally limiting the use of the emergency decree and the question of trust. In particular, it is a question of intervening also in the regulation of the legislative procedure in order to give certainty to the Government's initiatives and more generally to parliamentary proceedings, combining the speed of the parliamentary examination with the rights of minorities.

4) In order to fully implement point 10 of the Government Program, we commit ourselves to launch by December a process that involves all the majority political forces, open to the contribution of constitutionalists and civil society, also aimed at defining possible constitutional interventions, between including those relating to the structure of the trust relationship between the Chambers and the Government and to the enhancement of the Chambers and Regions for an orderly and timely implementation of differentiated autonomy.