The last to change his jacket for the umpteenth time was the deputy Devis Dori, a lawyer with an academic diploma in piano in his pocket, elected on the M5s lists in the Lombardy 3 district, who passed on 9 July 2021 in the Free and Equal group and landed on 10 February 2022 in the Mixed Group, European Green-Green Europe component. A few days earlier, on February 1st, she had been the senator of Pistoia Barbara Masini – born in 1974, graphic and web designer, visual communication consultant – to leave Forza Italia to embrace the mixed group. Last chapters of the waltz of shirt changes that has always animated Parliament.
Now the Chamber wants to curb the saga of the twists
The saga of the twists is, in fact, a consolidated habit in Parliament, which attempts to put a stop to the proposed modification of the Chamber’s regulations presented to the Board by the speakers Simone Baldelli (FI) and Emanuele Fiano (Pd). Among the novelties, vice-presidents and secretaries of the Chamber who change groups would lose their office, unless it is a dissolution or merger with other parliamentary groups. The practice by which the members of the Presidential Office called to be part of the Government cease from office is also codified. The operation would then be shared with colleagues from the Senate. The objective is to curb the leaps allowed by the absence of a mandate constraint for the elected representatives, a guarantee offered by article 67 of the Constitution.
In the legislature 304 changes of coat for 214 parliamentarians
In this legislature 214 parliamentarians have changed their shirts: 143 deputies and 71 senators. Many, however, have not made a single change, but have jumped from one group to another: 304 in all passages since the beginning of the XVIII legislature, with an average of about six per month. These numbers are not record-breaking if we consider, as Open Parliaments underlines, that for example “during the previous legislature (2013-2018) there were more group changes (569) and parliamentarians involved (348)”. Once elected, deputies and senators join a group, free to choose in the absence of mandate constraints. And they can change groups during the term, even several times. As many do.
In the Senate the record is held by Giovanni Marilotti with five changes
AND Giovanni Marilotti the senator who changed the most shirts in this legislature: five times. In the M5S first, then in the mixed group. And later in theGroup for autonomies(Svp-Patt, Uv), then part of the Europeanist-Maie-Democratic Center Groupand then again in the mixed group. Then landed inPd for almost a year, from April 15, 2021. He follows the senator with four changes Saverio Bonisoriginally from the province of Matera, elected to the ranks of the M5S and then moved to the Mixed Group on January 4, 2019 and toEuropeanist Group-Maie-Democratic Center from 26 January 2021, to then return to the Mixed Group on 30 March 2021 and move from 19 January 2022 to Forza Italia. Three changes for the senator Gregory De Falco (Mixed Group, then Eu-Maie-Cd and then again Mixed Group), elected in the ranks of the M5s in the wake of the sinking of the Costa Concordia and his famous “Vada aboard c …”, ordered to commander Schettino. The senator is also at an altitude of three Raffaele Fantetti, a lawyer resident in London, elected in the ranks of Forza Italia and then moved to the mixed group, to Eu-Maie-Cd and then to return to the mixed group. Tris also for Maria Rosaria Rossi elected in Forza Italia (Mixed Group-Eu-Maie-Cd and then again Mixed Group) e Andrea Causin he too with an armchair obtained in the ranks of Forza Italia (later Mixed Group-Eu-Maie-Cd and again Mixed Group).
Four changes in the Chamber for Maria Teresa Baldini
In the Chamber, the deputy holds the record of the legislature with four changes of jacket Maria Teresa Baldini, elected in the Lombardy 1 constituency in the ranks of the Brothers of Italy. Switched to the mixed groupfrom 6 August 2020, entry into Forza Italiafrom 18 August 2020. Then from 27 May 2021 she went inCourage Italy and from 23 December 2021 inItaly alive. Three changes per Michela Rostancivil lawyer elected in the ranks of Liberi e Ugualiin the Campania 1 district, which passed from February 19, 2020 to the ranks of Italia viva and joined the mixed group from February 2, 2021. Tris also for Claudio Pedrazzinientrepreneur in the services sector, elected deputy in Forza Italia (Lombardia 4), from 9 September 2019 in the Mixed Group, and then moved on to Coraggio Italiafrom May 27, 2021 and return inMixed groupfrom 1 December 2021. Three changes also for Gianluca Rospiconstruction engineer elected in the ranks of the M5S, Basilicata district, from 3 January 2020 in the Mixed Group, from 27 May 2021 in Coraggio Italia and from 18 November 2021 inCome on Italy. Tris also for Matteo dell’Ossoelectronic engineer, elected in the M5s, Emilia Romagna district, who moved from 7 December 2018 to Forza Italia, to then go to Coraggio Italia from 27 May 2021 and return from 29 January 2022 to Forza Italia.