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October 21, 2019New battle for the municipalities today for the government of Boris Johnson, determined to re-propose the Brexit deal after the postponement on Saturday following the approval of an amendment that first imposed the enactment of the technical implementation laws of the exit from the 'EU. The executive asks for a yes or a no, but the speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow could not admit the vote if he thought it a repetition with respect to Saturday. And in this case the race against the prime minister's time would go off to try to get the ok from the parliament to the implementation laws during the week, through an iter sprint destined to be opposed by the oppositions.

The British government will not accept votes on modified draft agreements with the EU on Brexit, because British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants Parliament to adopt the divorce agreement exactly in the form it agreed with Brussels, a Downing street spokesman said .

At 4.30 pm (Italian time) the municipal speaker John Bercow will announce if "the vote on the agreement will take place". In addition, Bercow will have to declare if amendments have been requested, in which case the government "will cancel the vote". The executive will present the necessary legislative documents for divorce by October 31 tomorrow.

If the motion were admitted, the Labor party has two hostile amendments in the works: one to submit the eventual approved agreement to a second confirmatory referendum (a proposal that could have the unprecedented yes of the Northern Irish Unionists of Dup, allies of the Tories, but which they consider the 'Boris deal' a betrayal); and one to distort its contents by proposing the permanence of the entire Kingdom in the European customs union.

In the meantime, the Union has taken the first formal step to make possible the exit of the United Kingdom: with a written procedure, "the decision on signing the withdrawal agreement and the adapted draft of the Council conclusions" have been adopted, which now will be forwarded to the European Parliament, to obtain its consent. A spokeswoman for the Paris government reiterated that "a possible new postponement on Brexit is not in anyone's interest".

For Germany a "brief technical postponement" of the Brexit date is feasible, said Heiko Maas, German Minister of Foreign Affairs