“Over the past 35 years, the centre-left has never supported a national run-off election separately from the abolition of the bicameral system with equal powers, because it is obvious that the existence of a single chamber that grants a vote of confidence to the government is a prerequisite for a national two-round system, and in this sense there is an incompatibility between the Constitution and Pera’s proposal.”
Rome. Marcello Pera, philosopher, former President of the Senate and FdI senator, yesterday vigorously defended his amendment on the run-off in Il Foglio, going so far as to accuse the PD and its senator Dario Parrini – who claims the amendment is unconstitutional – of having forgotten their own past. ‘You in the PD wanted it – the run-off – you’ve wanted it on several occasions,’ says Pera, whilst also condemning what he sees as a repeated tendency to change one’s mind, particularly in the run-up to the 2027 election, hence the epithet ‘Elly Schlein’s hothead’ levelled at his PD colleague. We ring Parrini to ask if he feels like a hothead. “I have nothing to say in response to this sort of insult.” On the rest, however, Parrini counters by accusing Pera of stating not one, but “three falsehoods” or at the very least “gross inaccuracies”. “Firstly: never, in the last 35 years,” says Parrini, “has the centre-left supported a national run-off separately from the abolition of the bicameral system with equal powers, because it is obvious that the existence of a...
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