To open the confrontation between the majority and the opposition in the referendums of May 8 and 9, it is the information that Dossier sent to the party’s IDE parliamentarians at Via della Scrofa. ‘Referendum, we choose abstention’, is the unambiguous title that summarizes the position expressed by the leaders of the first party Giorgia Meloni. Who finds the deputy -premier’s seat Antonio Tajani during the day. Forza Italia’s leader’s appeal of course: “We do not share the referendum proposal, so we invite abstention.” Where, by abstention, the secretary of FI intends to “not vote”. A abstention, what the Blue Party, which Tajani calls “politician”. “If someone thinks the referendum is not right,” he explains. “It is certain that it does not reach the quorum, it is those who want to force people to vote.”
Much of the center, in short, considers quorum sabotage a legitimate political tool and which immediately insists on opposing the campaign of the referendum of opposition parties. On the other hand, they attack the line defended by the two major parties unmistakable. First of all, PD and +Europe arise, promoter of the issue of citizenship. But the borders also come from M5S, AVS and the same secretary of the CGIL Maurizio Landini, who presented the four questions at work. To open the avalanche of criticism, he is the leader of the Democratic Party group at the Lavavo Commission, Arturo Scotto. “The fact that the main government party invites people to stay home – he declares – is a very serious fact: the sign of a profound undemocratic culture.” And after Tajani’s words, he adds, “Those who govern must fight abstention not to encourage it.”
But Elly Schlein’s party in history has a short memory, with certain intermittent amnesias according to convenience. Just think that the former President of the Napolitan Republic, in an interview with the Repubblica April 2016, before the vote on hydrocarbons has said, without a blow to injure that the research is not invalidated for the failure to reach the non -or the ousocrat or “whether the constitution establishes that the non -participation of the majority is the cause Nullity, not voting is a way of expressing yourself about the inconsistency of the referendum initiative, “he sentenced the then senator of life.
Source: IL Tempo
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