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February 07, 2020 "Absolutely not", Italia Viva does not want to bring down the government. This was assured by the leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, who spoke on Radio Capital this morning after the majority found an agreement on the prescription issue with the No of Italia Viva. "On justice - said Renzi - we must find an agreement: Parliament must choose between the law of Bonafede and Salvini and that of Gentiloni and Orlando. I am with Gentiloni and Orlando. The novelty of yesterday is that the Democratic Party is is deployed with the M5s ".

For the former prime minister, "the compromise found yesterday is a step forward but for us it is not enough" because it maintains "a justicialist principle". Renzi also denies the possibility of "external support from the Government" because "it means that we should have our ministers resigned: Bellanova and Bonetti are working well, Undersecretary Scalfarotto for Foreign Affairs who is the only one who understands something about exports. We do not want leave these three positions. Then if the prime minister wants us to leave, it will take a quarter of an hour. "

We want to help the government but "we are not on justice, however. If someone else is willing to become a member of the Rousseau platform to keep an armchair, go ahead, we are something else". In Renzi's opinion, "this three-party agreement does not have a majority in Parliament" and certainly "I do not vote for it". And on the possibility that Conte finds 50 centrists ready to support the government, he adds: "I have no problems with this, if they find the votes in the world of the right I am happy for them, a little less for the country".

Pd: "From Renzi ultimatum and then step back"
"Sorry that Senator Matteo Renzi continues to attack the wrong party: our opponent is Salvini's right. The threat of external support from the government lasted a few hours and this morning he was forced to backtrack. While not taking note that Minister Bonafede has radically changed his position on the prescription, which will be changed immediately, returning substantially to the Orlando law, together with the reform of the criminal trial that will be approved on Monday in the CDM, the leader of Italy alive prefers to give licenses of justice or guaranteeism instead of making proposals at the majority tables ". This was stated by Michele Bordo, deputy group leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber.

The split during the summit
Conte therefore manages to sign a mediation that convinces Minister M5s Alfonso Bonafede, the Pd and Leu delegation, but not Italy alive. The blocking of the prescription will definitively start only after a sentence on appeal. But the proposal does not appeal to Renzians who, as already announced before the meeting, remain firm on the request for a postponement. The prime minister announced on Monday an extraordinary Council of Ministers to approve the reform of the criminal trial "to shorten the time of the trials".

It also accelerates on the verification of government and convenes, starting from Monday, nine tables on the government program under the 2023 agenda, from work, to the reform of the personal income tax, to justice. But the prescription remains a grain capable of breaking the balance of the majority. Iv announces that he will vote his Annibali amendment to the Milleproroghe decree to postpone the Bonafede law for one year.

On February 24, in the Chamber, they will say yes to the bill by the lawyer Costa: if it were rejected, they are ready to present it also to the Senate with the signature of Matteo Renzi. The response of the other majority parties is to speed up the mediation and sign the agreement even without Iv. The risk of splitting also in the Chamber is around the corner, so among the Renzians there are those who are more cautious. Lucia Annibali, leaving Palazzo Chigi, says: "We hope that they will not bring the decree to the CDM, because how can we vote for something autonomously on which we disagree on the merits?".