• Today in the Senate the vote on Bonafede risks the government
  • Delrio: if there is no confidence in Bonafede, a crisis of government opens
  • Justice, Crimi: "Those who vote against Minister Bonafede distrust the entire government"
  • Melons: M5s surrenders amnesty to save Bonafede. Salvini: regularization of madness, favor with the underworld

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May 20, 2020 "The Senate does not approve". Even the second motion of no confidence against Minister Bonafede, the one presented by Emma Bonino and + Europe, did not pass the pitfall of the vote in the House. Palazzo Madama rejected it with 158 opposing senators, 124 in favor and 19 abstentions. 302 senators present at the time of the vote.

In the first motion of no confidence, the one presented by the center-right, the vote ended with 160 opposing senators, 131 in favor and 1 only abstained. The required majority was 146 votes given that the senators present were 297. However, 292 took part in the vote. 

Bonafede: "Clear facts, no conditioning on the Dap appointment"
"All the facts are clear and always have been: were there any conditionings? Once again: No!". Justice Minister Alfonso Bonafede said it, in the Senate Chamber, returning to talk about the appointment of the head of the Dap in June 2018. "Those who support him will make a reason for it. I am no longer willing to tolerate any allusion or ridiculous allegation" , he added.

"Government has not opened the doors of prisons"
"The plan to prevent and combat the infection was not only there. But at least until now it has also worked. The image of the government that would have opened the doors to inmates, "says the minister. No one "downloadable to the judiciary", but "just the opposite: respect for the autonomy and independence of the judiciary" then said Bonafede touching on the issue of release. "The judges have applied existing laws, at best, for more than 50 years and that no one had ever changed," reiterated the Guardasigilli. "I reject any political exploitation - he added - I acknowledge the surveillance judges to have done an important job in a very difficult moment, in which the pandemic, despite all the precautions adopted, put a strain on the entire general infrastructure of our country and , all the more reason, a delicate and complex administration such as the prison one ". 

"In all my laws fight against the underworld"
"In all my laws there is the firm determination, which I claim, to fight the underworld. The fight against underworld without compromise has always animated and will animate my political activity" underlined Bonafede . He also added: "The concrete measures taken during the emergency are the result of teamwork by the whole government which has decided to consider justice a real priority".

Renzi: "We will vote against the no-confidence motions"
"" We will vote against the no-confidence motions "said the leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, in the Senate court intervening in the explanations of vote on the two motions of no confidence." Justicialism, Minister Bonafede, have done much harm. She said that if there is a shadow of a suspect one must resign. I say no, Giovanni Falcone said it, no to the culture of suspicion. No to justicialism "says the leader of Italia Viva who pore to the minister concludes:" Do the Minister of Justice, not the justicialists and you will see that he will have us by his side. "

Matteo Renzi, before the explanations of vote, had explained that at this time voting for a motion of no confidence is difficult, as the country is going through a complicated moment. But Iv - the thesis of the leader of Iv - will not back off on the battles on justice. And in a message on Facebook the leader of Iv wrote: "The Today's intervention in the Senate is one of the most difficult interventions of my political experience. "

In the last few hours, the Democratic Party and the M5s had warned Renzi's party: if the motion will vote, the crisis will open, there are no alternatives. Yesterday evening the president of Camera Roberto Fico insisted: "In that case there is a political problem and a crisis of government, so I think it will not happen." 

Yesterday afternoon the group leader Iv in Montecitorio Maria Elena Boschi had a c two-hour talk with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at Palazzo Chigi to try to undo the knot. On the table, in addition to Iv's attitude towards the motion of no confidence, there may also have been the package of proposals that the party had sent to the Prime Minister in recent days. Meanwhile, the M5s makes a square around its minister.

Grasso: "Leu will renew trust, we continue to work"
"Liberi e Uguali will renew trust", announced Pietro Grasso in the Senate, addressing the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede. "We clear the field: the releases have nothing to do with measures issued by the government - said the senator from Leu -. However, we have witnessed a general clouding, a sum of evaluation errors committed". "Now that we have resumed tackling issues no longer linked to the pandemic - he concluded - we are asking you to continue your work vigorously and intervene incisively regarding the many problems we face".

Bonino: "Bonafede is the minister of suspicion, it does not help Italy"
"Today we are discussing which justice policy Italy needs. If the continuity of the government should mean the continuity of the justice policy practiced by Bonafede, I would invite everyone to consider that Italy would have no benefit". Emma Bonino of + Europa said it in the Senate Chamber, illustrating her own motion of individual distrust towards the Guardasigilli, calling him "minister of suspicion". "We think that Justice is an institution guaranteeing all citizens and not an instrument of political struggle or civil moralization", he says, underlining that he entitled his motion to Enzo Tortora "as a choice of an idea of ​​justice over an For us, justice does not coincide with handcuffs as for Bonafede, "he concludes. "Bonafede pays an ideological bribe to criminal justice. And where did the promised reform of criminal justice or that of the CSM end? I want justice that does not frighten the citizens but restores their confidence in the right process and in the correctness of the administration".

Salvini: "Lega will also vote on Bonino's no-confidence motion"
"The Lega will also vote on" No-confidence "motion for Più Europa. We need a minister of justice who is able to manage prisons, who ensures that bosses do not get out of jail, that there is certainty of punishment ". The secretary of the League Matteo Salvini announced it in a note in view of the vote on the no-confidence motions to the minister Alfonso Bonafede.

Rosato: "We are not cheering to send the government home, we are asking for institutional representation"
"We are not cheering to send the government home but to straighten the government line". So Ettore Rosato coordinator of Italy lives, on Radio too, on today's Senate vote on the Minister of Justice. "Today we will listen to the minister and we hope that the things we have said will be clearly represented by him. Many things that are contained in Bonino's motion can be shared," he added. "In the emergency we are experiencing, we have a duty to keep the bar straight on justice by asking Bonafede about the precise commitments that we hope to hear today in the Chamber," he underlined. "There is a Cencelli manual - he adds, speaking also on Radio 24 - we ask for institutional representation like others but we have not asked for any undersecretary for justice and Gennaro Migliore could make the minister better than Bonafede".

Bellanova: "IV vote based on the minister's signals"
We will listen to the minister of justice. The minister is well aware that there are sensitive issues on justicialism, we continue to think of it in a different way as on prescription. So let's wait for the minister to give important signals in this direction. On the basis of this, our vote in the Senate will be expressed. "Thus the Minister of Agricultural Policies, Teresa Bellanova, guest of the broadcast" Circo Massimo "on Radio Capital on the motion of no confidence against the Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede." it is about promises but about taking on the composition of a majority. We are not people who change positions when needed. You have to recognize differences and mediate otherwise you don't understand how a majority is held together. "According to Bellanova" you have to give a signal of a coalition that wants to work by mutually recognizing each other. "There is talk of reshuffling, of new government posts for exponents of Italia Viva: "This is a way to make the comparison lesser", replies Bellanova, "Italia Viva did not ask for subgovernment posts, but it posed a problem".