Reforms, collected signatures for the referendum

2020-01-10T13:13:29.217Z

"We are 71 at the moment". This is what Adnkronos learns from parliamentary sources in Palazzo Madama regarding the signatures of the senators for the request for a referendum on the cutting of the number of parliamentarians. Therefore exceeded the minimum threshold of 64 senators for the request of the referendum. The goal would have been achieved with a decisive support from the Northern League senators. In the afternoon, the promoters should file the request with the Court of Cassation. Some signatures withdrawn Senators of the Democratic Party Francesco Verducci and Vincenzo D'Arienzo have withdrawn, as far as we learn, the signatures from the proposal for the referendum on the constitutional reform on the cutting of parliamentarians. Dem sources explain that the two senators would have done it as a consequence of "a new political fact" and that is the presentation of that proportional electoral law proposal, which from the beginning had been requested by the Democratic Party in relation to the cut of parliamentarians. "This morning I withdrew my signature on the confirmatory referendum on the cut of parliamentarians". This was reported by Senator M5s Mario Michele Giarrusso, who explains: "I withdrew it because my position was exploited by some and misrepresented by others. I remain of the idea that giving the floor to citizens with a confirmatory referendum without quorum, is a chosen in line with our history of commitment to direct democracy. Unfortunately, however, these arguments have neither been accepted nor understood. Jackals, however, immediately plunged into the controversy, only to throw mud, without any restraint. sorry to have left the flag of direct democracy, in the hands of those who do not deserve it. Too bad, "he concludes. Radicals with 669 signatures The Promoting Committee of the Radical Party for the referendum on cutting the number of parliamentarians has deposited 669 signatures of citizens sent by the municipal secretariats. "It was decided to deposit the signatures to 'verbalize' the violent censorship carried out by the media and the public service, media and public service which the President of the Republic addressed for the first time in his speech at the end of the year - yes reads in a note from the Committee - on this occasion we renew the appeal to the Secretary of the League Matteo Salvini, to allow that in this country there is a referendum and a debate on a constitutional reform so important that, with the electoral law of the majority M5S-PD aims to exclude citizens even more from the choice of their representatives and from the choice of the government of the country ".