Senate: government, the bar now drops to 165. Weighted absences and senators for life

2019-12-11T19:46:24.254Z

The Giallorossi majority gets 164 votes in the Senate, votes that become 165 if the vote is corrected also taking into account the life senator Elena Cattaneo, initially considered among the abstentions but who subsequently communicated that she had made a mistake in voting. In any case, the bar drops significantly below the 169 votes registered by the Conte bis to the settlement, last September. To weigh are the 4 votes against the majority resolution on the Mes coming from the ranks of the M5s: in three cases (Grassi, Urraro and Lucidi) these are votes that in all probability prefigure a farewell to the pentastellato group (Grassi voted for the resolution of the center and together with Urraro also the resolution of Candiani). In the case of Gianluigi Paragone, the negative vote does not mean that there will be a farewell to the M5s group, as he explained himself in the courtroom. Certainly now the majority will have to pay more attention to absences and even to the senators' vote for life. Today in the M5s there were 5 absent (Bogo Deledda, Ciampolillo, L'Abbate, La Mura, Vaccaro). Of the senators for life only Elena Cattaneo voted in favor of the majority document. Mario Monti, Renzo Piano and Carlo Rubbia did not take part in the vote, Giorgio Napolitano and Liliana Segre were on leave or on a mission.