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July 31, 2020 The 'political' go-ahead for the revision of the security decrees wanted by the former interior minister Matteo Salvini has arrived. Five meetings were needed for the majority exponents to resolve the issues that have divided Pd and M5s for more than a year.

Among the new features are the cancellation of millionaire fines for NGO ships, the widening of the possibility of accessing humanitarian protection, the revision of the Siproimi reception system, the possibility for asylum seekers to register in the municipal registry. Precisely on this last point, the Constitutional Court ruled recently declaring the stop of the registration to the registry of asylum seekers unreasonable. The text will also be brought to the attention of the local autonomies. However, it is not expected to be approved immediately. Partly because the landings have started to increase again and partly to avoid repercussions on the regional elections, the Council will take care of it not before September. 

It was not an easy path that led to the shared text. Initially the positions between the different majority forces were spread, with Pd, Leu and Iv pushing for a strong signal of discontinuity with the measures signed by Salvini which had introduced, among other things, fines of up to one million euros for humanitarian ships that entered Italian waters in violation of the law; they had practically canceled humanitarian protection and eliminated asylum seekers from the reception system promoted with the municipalities (the former Sprar, which became Siproimi). The cinquestelle - who ruled with the League at the time of the decrees - wanted to limit themselves to accepting the reliefs expressed by the head of state Sergio Mattarella. After the first meeting, however, the position of the movement has softened, opening up to the more substantial changes requested by the allies.

The text includes the expansion of special permits for those who risk undergoing "inhuman and degrading treatments" in their country, for those who need medical treatment, for those who come from countries where "serious calamities" have occurred; halving the holding times in the cpr (from 180 to 90 days); the revision of the Siproimi reception system, limited by Salvini to refugees only, providing two levels (one of first aid the other also with integration) and structures with small numbers managed by municipalities and extended to asylum seekers; the convertibility of residence permits into work permits; the intervention on the 'tenuity of the fact' requested by Mattarella regarding the hypotheses of violence to public officials.