Pd and Cinque Stelle have one element in common. Both political forces in these hours have to deal with dossiers that are as complex as they are potentially divisive. On the one hand, the Zan bill, with the fracture less and less hidden between those in the Democratic Party (in the front row the secretary Letta) aims to bring the text to the Senate as it is, and those who press to open a dialogue with whom, from Salvini to Renzi, asks to change the provision before the provision is landed at Palazzo Madama. On the other hand, the Cartabia justice reform, which risks imploding the Five Stars, already in disarray due to the lack of leadership and the growing conflict between the Guarantor Beppe Grillo and the aspiring leader Giuseppe Conte.
High tension in M5s after the green light for the justice reform
The reform of justice risked derailing under the blows of the M5s. The day after the go-ahead from the Council of Ministers, the winds of the split returned to blow. The main crux was represented by the stop to the statute of limitations, so much so that before the government meeting at Palazzo Chigi the pentastellati had threatened to abstention at the time of the vote on the measure. Stop the prescription that the Five Star Movement initially wanted to extend to all levels of judgment. The mediation of Cartabia has focused on the inclusion of crimes against the Public Administration, such as corruption and extortion, among those with extended procedural times, and the inclusion of the conditions of “inadmissibility” for the second and third degree, if they exceed certain times. Draghi made it clear to ministers that, once an agreement has been reached in the Council of Ministers, it is up to the loyalty of those who sit in the majority, to ensure that the “political miracle” (copyright Mara Carfagna) carried out on the reform of the criminal trial is not dismantled in Parliament. The fear is that precisely in the parliamentary passage, the Five Stars, a party with a relative majority, could question its structure. As things stand, no one in M5s can guarantee that this won’t happen. Alessandro Di Battista and the former Keeper of the Seals Alfonso Bonafede lead an attack front against the M5s ministers. “I appreciate the work of the Cartabia – said Conte -, but we have returned to an Italian anomaly”. The former prime minister therefore asked for “a legitimate democratic dialectic in Parliament”. Concerns about the reform were also expressed by Forza Italia. Coordinator Antonio Tajani admitted that “something needs to be corrected”.
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Ddl Zan divides Pd on negotiation, but Letta goes straight
And if the scenarios on the front of the justice reform and the repercussions it will have on the M5s equilibrium are still to be clarified, an equally indefinite picture is the one that currently characterizes the approach and strategy of the Democratic Party towards the Zan bill. A few days after the start of the discussion in the Senate, on July 13 in the classroom, the clash over the bill has in fact moved to the left. To feed it, a small group of senators of the Democratic Party, closer to the Renzians: worried about the few chances of approval of the law – at risk without the votes of Italia viva – they pushed for mediation and asked their party to accept “some small changes on the most controversial points “of the text against homotransphobia. But the leaders of the Nazarene, starting with the secretary Letta, have not yielded to date, firm in their yes to the law without upheavals. “We are ready to listen, discuss, dialogue but in Parliament”, clarified the secretary of the Democratic Party. The match has begun. Letta’s challenge is therefore not so much towards the League, but towards Matteo Renzi who asked for a broad agreement to make some changes in line with the requests of the Holy See. And the proof of the neighboring courtroom.