Giorgia Meloni defends her constitutional reform, that of the premiership , in front of an audience of entrepreneurs, academics, athletes and artists, explaining that for her this path represents "an opportunity to be seized to be at peace with one's conscience". Because, the Prime Minister is sure, it will provide "stability", "avoid the President of the Republic's role as deputy in politics" and "put an end to overlaps". A goal he wants to achieve even at the cost of going to a referendum: «The Italians will have the last say. Because the Constitution is not mine but the people's." And in the meantime, he explains, we will need "an electoral law with preferences, which reconstructs the elected-voter relationship".

The event, the conference «The Constitution of all. Dialogue on the premiership", organized in the Chamber, included a series of analyses, even conflicting with each other, by constitutionalists who have studied the reform in depth. The President of the Chamber Lorenzo Fontana hopes for "the broadest consensus" but warns that the debate "must not paralyze" Parliament. Minister Maria Elisabetta Casellati, who personally follows the bill that arrived today in the Senate (with 3 thousand opposition amendments), assures that "there is no danger of authoritarian drift".

Even when Luciano Violante, decidedly against this premiership, suggests bringing Parliament together in a joint session for the budget law, confidence or decrees. "Let's think - adds the former president of the Chamber - what our opponents would do if they had a form of this kind in their hands". «I have wondered many times about how opponents would use this reform. It doesn't scare me", underlines the prime minister, speaking in the Chamber's representation room in front of an audience that ranges from film producer Tarek Ben Ammar to Pupo, passing through Amedeo Minghi and Iva Zanicchi, but also Michele Placido and Claudia Gerini, or even the swimmer Filippo Magnini and the fencing champion Elisa Di Francisca.

The Prime Minister reviews the main aspects of a reform, carried out "on tiptoe", which she considers a watershed. Not for his executive which, he assures, "is solid and stable". But to avoid other cases like the Conte or Draghi governments. «This reform does not concern myself or President Mattarella», Meloni points out, dismissing the protests of the opposition as an «ideological debate»: the Constitution «belongs to everyone, its interpretation cannot favor a single political culture or a single point of view ».

(Unioneonline/D)

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