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Cts snubbed by Draghi, Copasir aumm aumm, Banca Ifis da mungere, French feet in Tod's

Copasir, M5S, Pnrr, Cts, Astrazeneca, Ponte Morandi, Copasir and much more. Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. The tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start

THE JUICE OF PNRR

HELLO HELLO CTS

BRUSSELS PICKS UP ON ASTRAZENECA

WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN SALVINI AND GIORGETTI?

5 STAR MONEY

FRENCH TOD'S

JUDGES AND JURISTS

BRIDGE BE CAREFUL

THE SWISS RED

THE IFIS COW TO SQUEEZE

SHUT UP AND FLY ON COPASIR?

Because on the Copasir the constitutionalists toss Fico and Casellati . The Start article

QUISQUILIE & PINZILLACCHERE

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EXTRACT FROM A START MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON COPASIR:

Embarrassment at the top of Parliament for the appeal of constitutionalists and jurists to the presidents of the Chamber and Senate on the Copasir summit – the Committee for the security of the Republic, or the parliamentary control committee of the Secret Services – which is up to the opposition, therefore to Brothers of Italy.

THE TEXT OF THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS AND JURISTS APPEAL ON COPASIR

"The law, regulations and parliamentary practice require that a representative of the opposition sit in the chairmanship of Copasir, while two months after the new executive takes office, the control and guarantee body of the Information and Security Services continues to be chaired by a member of the parliamentary majority ". This is what 40 constitutionalists, jurists, professors of law and political science underline, in a letter-appeal to the presidents of the Senate and of the Chamber, Elisabetta Casellati and Roberto Fico, who have actually washed their hands on the issue so far, postponing the ball to the parliamentary groups: "Fico and Casellati leave Copasir to the League", the communist daily Manifesto criticized for this in recent days.

THE SIGNATORS OF THE APPEAL TO FICO AND CASELLATI ON COPASIR

Among the signatories of the document, on which other adhesions are being gathered, are the president emeritus of the Constitutional Court, Valerio Onida, the former president of the Constitutional Court, Antonio Baldassarre; the professors of constitutional law Alfonso Celotto, Tommaso Frosini, Fulco Lanchester and Alessandro Morelli; the political scientists Piero Ignazi, Alessandro Campi and Gianfranco Pasquino (who, like Ignazi, for example, has a progressive approach). At the top of Palazzo Madama and Montecitorio, the authors of the document ask to take "all those necessary initiatives, which, even on the basis of similar precedents, can restore the conditions of constitutional legality in the best interest of the good performance of parliamentary activity". And speaking of precedents, recalling the permanence of Massimo D'Alema at the helm of Copasir after the birth of Govenro Monti, they underline that this is the "typical exception that confirms the rule".

THE POSITION OF THE CHAMBER AND SENATE VERTICES

But what had Fico and Casellati said? On the Copasir the ball goes to the parties, in essence. They decide what to do with the presidency, today the prerogative of the League with Raffaele Volpi. “After a month of political-parliamentary battle led by the Brothers of Italy to obtain the office that by law would belong to the opposition, the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber, Casellati and Fico, intervene with a letter to settle the controversy. In reality they do it only partially ”, wrote Repubblica in recent days.

WHAT FICO AND CASELLATI A VOLPI SAY

In the text, sent to the president of Copasir Volpi himself, in addition to explaining that he cannot intervene with any act of authority, for example with the dissolution of the Committee, they cite the "D'Alema precedent" of 2011 under the Monti government : the then exponent of the Democratic Party, president Copasir, had been elected in opposition but with the birth of the technical executive he had effectively entered the majority, remaining in his place. The problem, write the second and third offices of the state, is the composition of the bicameral body. "A possible revision of the composition of the Committee – it reads – aimed at guaranteeing parity between the majority and the opposition, would determine a clear over-representation of the Fratelli d'Italia groups". In short, five of the ten parliamentarians should belong to Giorgia Meloni's party. The principle of balance between political forces would not be respected: Fdi, they point out, represents 6 percent of the current composition of the two branches of Parliament. The result, la Repubblica : the previous one of 2011 sets the standard, the current Copasir is not changed. If the parties do not take responsibility for electing a new president, Volpi cannot be substituted by authority. "The objective of responding to the need underlying the request formulated by the Fratelli d'Italia groups can therefore be achieved exclusively through general agreements between the majority and opposition political forces, the feasibility of which we reserve the right to verify in the appropriate forums", they conclude the two presidents of the House and Senate.

Who today – it is rumored in parliamentary circles – a sigh of relief: no major newspaper has given space to the news of the manifesto-appeal also signed by left-wing jurists and political scientists.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tods-ifis-draghi-cts-copasir/ on Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:56:32 +0000.