Direct election of the Prime Minister, stop to reversals and technical governments and stop to the appointment of senators for life chosen by the Quirinale .
The Council of Ministers has approved the constitutional reform , a bill by Minister Maria Elisabetta Casellati which changes the fundamental Charter and is destined to be discussed for a long time. Also because the approval in the CDM is only the first of many steps necessary for the reform to come into force.
The bill has 5 articles and introduces "the direct election of the President of the Council of Ministers". But the most controversial step is the so-called anti-reversal rule which modifies article 94 of the Constitution, affecting the powers of the Collegium. If the prime minister elected by the people is no-confidence, the President of the Republic "can confer the task of forming the government on the resigning Prime Minister or on another parliamentarian elected in connection with the elected president" . The prime minister in charge must present himself with the same program and obtain the vote of confidence from the parliamentarians who supported the majority that emerged from the polls. Opposition votes can be added to, but not replaced, those of the majority. With such a rule, essentially, the Draghi government would never have been born. And not even those of Giuseppe Cont e.
The Head of State retains the power to appoint ministers "on the proposal of the Prime Minister". The prime minister, elected by direct universal suffrage, remains in office for 5 years.
Only the emeritus presidents of the Republic will become senators for life , with no direct appointment by the Quirinale "for very high merits in the social, scientific, artistic and literary fields" .
«In the last 75 years of Republican history we have had 68 governments with an average lifespan of a year and a half. This is the mother of all the reforms that can be done in Italy because if we take a step back and look at the last 20 years we have had 12 Prime Ministers", said in the press conference at Palazzo Chigi.
